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The March for Public Education is intended to show support for public education funding. The poll of 460 registered voters found that 53 percent of voters think New York spends too little on education, while just 10 percent believe the state spends too much

What can they possibly be talking & protesting about? See Below!

New York spent $10,922 per student in 2001, outdoing second-ranked New Jersey by $29. Connecticut, Alaska and Massachusetts also were big spenders in 2001, at more than $9,000 per pupil. Also top-ranked were Rhode Island, $8,775; Vermont, $8,706; and Delaware, $8,603. "http://www.stateline.org/story.do?storyId=293163"

What scares me is how these educator's views compare to the works of Gramsci, or Engels and Marx, and being passed down as ideological indoctrination to future generations.

Instead of a veiled call for greater socialism, and the rebellion of the proletariat, to achieve the self-discipline, self-restraint and moral strength we have lost to the ideology of the counter-culture baby boomer's irresponsible individualism and pleasuremongering - perhaps a more introspective approach is in order?

How will spending more on public schooling (and earlier, as in Pre-K) get your children away from the TV set and in front of their homework? How has doubling the education spending in Georgia over the last 10 years improved it's academic standing in the nation or the world? Georgia spends $6,900 per student, 27th highest in the nation. New York spends the highest per pupil, $10,922. Are our schools really under funded, even after increasing federal education spending 132 percent since 1996? How is it that states and homeschoolers, that spend significantly less per pupil, outperform these public school children? Social (non-military) spending accounts for over 82% of all federal spending. Social Security and Medicare fiscally threaten this country's security and future generations' ability to work. Aren't these the same people that were passing anti-war resolutions and demonstrating on the street?

Somehow, I don't think the security of our country is found in a nostalgia for flower painted VW's.