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วินิคกับซานโตสคิดต่างกันเรื่อง education LIVE DEBATE SAWYER : Congressman Santos, throughout this campaign, you have said that you want to be known as the Education President. Now, what does that mean? What is the proper role of the federal government in education? SANTOS : Level the playing field. Help close the gap between Beverly Hills High and Harlem High. We have got to change a system that says the quality of your education depends on where you live. VINICK : Throw more money at the problem; that's the Democratic way... SANTOS : Well, you want to throw money at the border. VINICK : Let me finish. Before you vote for someone who thinks you can buy higher test scores for poor students, know this: the highest spending school system in the country has the lowest test scores. Washington, D.C. spends more than every state; $15,000 per pupil with nothing to show for it. SANTOS: I'm not talking about just throwing money at the problem. I'm talking about supporting the new approaches that have already succeeded in some school districts. The President can spread those good ideas around the country and he can make sure that every student gets the chance that he or she deserves. VINICK : Except the chance to go to a private school. The Republican Congress passed a federally funded voucher program for Washington, D.C. to help poor students who can't afford to go to private schools. We got more applications than we could handle. Poor minority parents desperately want to get their kids out of failing public schools. The Democrats won't let them. SANTOS : Oh, that's right, the big, bad Democrats won't take money away from public schools to give them to private schools. What's next, taking money away from police departments to pay for private security guards? VINICK : The federal budget contributes about seven cents out of every dollar spent on public schools. Now, if you enact every bit of the Santos education plan, then that will go up to eight cents. Do you really think you get to call yourself the Education President if you're only going to cover half the education budget? SANTOS : Well, the federal share is much higher than that if you include headstart, and I can understand why you don't include headstart in the total of federal funding, Senator, since you voted against it. VINICK : Headstart doesn't work. VINICK : I wish headstart did work, but it doesn't. By grades four and five, headstart graduates do no better academically than their equally poor classmates who didn't attend headstart. So yes, I have voted against expansions of an 8-billion... 6-billion dollar program that's not raising academic achievement. SANTOS : Headstart does raise scores in the early years and then we let them slip. Our whole school system has been slipping for years and our rankings with other countries in math and science achievement... we've got to find a way to turn that around. If we provide the school systems and teachers with everything they need and the flexibility to experiment with fresh new approaches, I think that American students can be number one in the world in math and science in ten years. VINICK : That's a lie. It's a lie that every President, Democrat and Republican, has been telling for 20 years: we're going to be number 1 in ten years. Go ahead, Google it right now. I'm not saying that every President knew it was a lie when he said it or that Congressman Santos knows it's not true, but I do. So let me tell you what our goals should be our realistic goals. First of all, let's stop pretending that everyone can or should go to college. Every airline needs high-paid mechanics and none of them have to go to college. There are plumbers in some parts of the country that make a better living than dentists. Now, I'm not talking about lowering our ambitions. I'm talking about targeting our ambitions correctly. Now, it's true: some other countries have raised their academic standards over and above what they were once. But we still have the best scientists in the world, the best doctors, and by far the most Nobel prizes. If a kid does well in one of those foreign high schools, guess where he or she wants to go to college. That's right; Harvard, Stanford, Cal-Tech, the University of Texas, and a hundred other American universities that are better than anything they have in their countries. So, if we're going to have a practical approach to education, we're going to have to admit that not every one can go to MIT. But most of the kids who do go to MIT come from American public schools. SANTOS : So, give up on headstart, just give up on early education, and then give up on those kids who don't test well. They'll find their way, don't worry about them. VINICK : I'm not going to give up on public schools. SANTOS : Well, you haven't proposed a single thing that will make them better not one new idea. I'm going to keep trying new ideas. Some might work, some might not, and I'll level with you about that. We'll keep the good ideas and get rid of the bad. And I won't let a day go by in this White House where I don't work hard to improve our public schools. In fact, I'm going to stake my Presidency on that, right here, right now. And if in four years from now, you don't think I've improved public education in this country then do not vote for my reelection.
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