The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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