Now you have gone off the deep end.
First of all, I didn't even vote for Bush. You implied that I did.
Secondly, my main beef is that the inner city students ARE not being educated. It's not an "at all" situation. It's a fact.
The problem that I have with liberals is that they are supremely naive and incapable of critical thinking. During the Great Depression "relief" came to the people who were on the verge of starvation. We had something on the order of 1/3 of the working people out of work and people were barely able to survive. My own family lived in southeast Missouri as sharecroppers and didn't have a pot to **** in. They had to eat the bark off of trees and in bad times had to boil their shoes to have something to eat. A good day's pay was a $1 a day if you could find work. But then the war came along with it and with it came relative prosperity.
Moving right along, things progressed until the LBJ came up with his "Great Society." He had great power with both the presidency, and huge majorities in Congress. They went hog wild with all of these liberal programs. If I recall correctly the national budget didn't exceed $100 billion unitl the mid or late 60's. It is now $2.8 trillion dollars. We have NOT had 2,800 % inflation since then. Maybe 500-600% inflation but not 2,800% inflation. Meanwhile all of this tax money has gone in to fund the schemes the government bureaucrats could concoct and to buy the continued votes of the constituents of Congress to where they now have virtual lifetime employment in D.C. That's where we are today.
When I began school in 1949, I went to a one room school house on a hill about a mile from where I lived. I walked to school as did all my classmates. There were eight grades in that school house. We took our lunches to school in our lunch boxes and ate in the basement. We had our recesses where we played on the swings and softball in the adjoining field. There were no sports programs that needed funding. We didn't have school "counselors" and all of that liberal mumbo-jumbo crap that passes for education today. And if one stepped out of line, the teacher rapped our knuckles or called the parents to take their brats home. Later on, I attended an area wide school district and rode a school bus 12 miles to the high school I attended. I was kicked off the bus and made to walk to and from the school to my home for pulling a girl's hair on the bus. The principal walked the halls with a paddle in his hand and woe to anyone stepping out of line. One time a made a wisecrack in class and the teacher slapped me in the face. That got my attention.
What we have today are glorified day care centers for the kids to get them out of the house so the parents can do their thing. Then the kids come home and do their thing. Our prisons are filling up with these kids who can't do fundamental skills to hold a job so instead they hold up liquor and convenience stores. One of the growing industries in Texas is our ever increasing prison system. That's the net result of the failing education system of today. Why would anyone, liberal or conservative, want to preserve that system? Beats the hell out of me.