Here’s a post I meant to link a while back, but I was busy (where busy is defined as “playing World of Warcraft”).

Kevin Baker quotes an entire piece by Senator Tom McClintock (R-CA) about the state of the school system.

Unlike Kevin, I’m not going to quote the entire piece, but I did want to quote what I considered to be the most important part:

This budget leaves a razor-thin reserve of just $216,703 or $1,204 per pupil, which can pay for necessities like paper, pencils, personal computers and extra-curricular travel. After all, what’s the point of taking four years of French if you can’t see Paris in the spring?

The school I have just described is the school we’re paying for. Maybe it’s time to ask why it’s not the school we’re getting.

That’s a question that should be leveled directly at the unions who are fighting so hard to keep our schools from being forced to actually compete by campaigning against school choice programs. Why aren’t we getting the schools we pay for?