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  1. Processed foods? Vaccines?

  2. I find it hard to believe the "lack of funding" for education is at issue. The state of Washington has a statewide average class size of 27 students. The annual cost per classroom is approximately $225,000. In a truly private, voluntary education system this amount would be more than sufficient to provide materials, facilities and instruction to kids.
    The psychotropic drugs are given to kids to help facilitate the state control and indoctrination of the young mind. It is child abuse and anyone that advocates for dispensing these drugs to children should be incarcerated. Making the argument that these brain altering drugs are justified due to lack of funding is simply wrong.

  3. So much of the education process depends on the child being ready to learn and eager to learn. The argument that kids would become better educated if we paid teachers better and generally spent more on education doesn't fly.

    In the 1950s, teachers taught because they loved it, not mainly for the pay and the perks. We seemed to get a more useful skillset back then. Teachers get paid a lot more now, but I frequently see college grads who can't spell and aren't proficient in English. So, what are taxpayers getting for the money they're spending on education?

    I have met several kids who were placed on Ritalin and Adderall at an early age. They seems seriously messed up even when the drugs were out of their system. The notion of giving kids drugs to raise their IQ sound like the latest marketing ploy by Big Pharma, which together with our U.S. processed food industry created the problem with a heavy vaccination schedule, fluoridated water, soda pop and junk food diet.

    So, the notion of giving children amphetamines to correct the damage our defective diet, anti-intellectual social environment, and profit-driven medical practices have caused is ludicrous. If the child wants an education, turn them loose in a good underused public library.

    When they find what they have a talent for and a desire to do, they can either find a job that interests them or build a business like so many of the billionaire dropouts, like Steve Jobs, Sir Richard Branson(who left school at age 16 to start a business), and Bill Gates, who also didn't do so bad.

    If schools want to do something for kids with learning handicaps, they should correct their nutritional status, not feed them drugs.

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