I read the letters to the L.A. Times so you don't have to

Raymond Rodriguez, a retired educator and walking cliché from Long Beach, is alarmed by the 25% dropout rate here in California's high schools:

The dropout rate is staggering, and everyone is trying to rectify the problem, or so it appears from the rhetoric. But are we really serious? Obviously not. It all begins in the classroom, with the teacher. Compare what we spend in time, money and effort to train a teacher with what we invest in training a fighter pilot. One gives meaning to life; the other's job is to end life. Whom do we value the most? There is your answer to the problem.

Something tells me that Raymond isn't a McCain supporter.

Aside from that, there's something awfully familiar about his argument, but I just can't seem to place it. Hmmmmmm...



Oh yeah.  Real original, Ray.

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