I completely agree with the urgency of the educational crisis we are all in right now. Our children are lagging behind in so many vitally important areas compared to the rest of the world. The grandparents and great(^nth) grandparents would be so ashamed of our lack of intellectual prowess. Why we have hardly made any progress with education over the past few decades and if anything we are only falling more behind. If you haven’t yet, you should all watch the movie Idiocracy. It foretells of a world in our not too distant future where all of the intellectually lacking individuals continuously reproduce until America is reduced to a society of Neanderthals.

I would like to see information to the contrary. It’s not like the average GPA has been rising over the years. Or even that the average IQ has risen over the years, cough Flynn effect cough. Well racing to the top wants to make sure that we raise the smartest kids in the world gosh darn it. Stagnation is just not a word we believe in with education. We’re falling behind world wide standards on success. Damn you PISA assessment, we’re trying to get smarter but we just can’t find the motivation. We just need those few extra spots and that will solve all our problems in this country, if our 15 year old children only score higher in mathematics and science we can fix health care, social security and all the violent issues in the world.

The $4.35 billion is just not enough to combat this issue. We need to fund this program more to make sure that we show the world that we have the smartest kids with the highest graduation rate in the world. Only after spending billions more on fixing these test scores can we find a way to fix the economy and pay for health care. The children are our only hope for the future.