<p>Money. MONEY. MONEY!</p>
<p>We don’t have ANY. The only reason the various governments are not broke is because the Federal Government can print money. The Wall Street bankers are trying to take that away by replacing the dollar with the renminbi.</p>
<p>OK, where do you propose to get funding? Take it from programs for disabled students? Cut gifted funding?</p>
<p>Public education is dying. People that can are flocking to home schooling, private and parochial schools , or simply moving to better school districts.</p>
<p>Some students will drop out. Sooner is cheaper and better than later.</p>
<p>Triage. Save those we can. Don’t waste a disproportinate share of resources on problem kids.</p>
<p>Of course we can do nothing but continue as is. The successor society will take care of things.</p>