[speaker001:] uh well I I I guess it's a subject I haven't thought too much about uh I don't know if there's so much wrong with the public schools uh as much as we're expecting too much out of them
[speaker002:] uh that might be a lot to do with it I know a lot of it here in my state I'm from Mississippi I'm not sure where you're from Minnesota okay well a lot of it in Mississippi here is got to do with funding
[speaker001:] Minnesota Wisconsin yeah
[speaker002:] problems with our education system a lot of it's due money and they're trying to spend money where we don't have it and there's a lot of things we need that we just can't afford
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah well it's it it is getting very expensive to run schools so they got computers now that you got to train on there's just so much uh more
[speaker002:] well it is right
[speaker001:] and less money to do it with
[speaker002:] that's true and a lot of it lot of it has to do with uh salaries too speaking of money because if you can't pay the right people you know they're not going to be able to do they're not not gonna get the people that can do a good job
[speaker001:] all right yeah yeah yeah I I I guess that in uh talking on lot of the things as far as the discipline in the schools I I think they're expecting schools to discipline the kids and uh I think it should go right back to the parents if you don't train your kids right then
[speaker002:] right I feel the same right I feel the same way a lot's got to do with how the kids were raised at home
[speaker001:] right yeah
[speaker002:] and then when the kids get to school they try to take away a lot of things that they can do to discipline the kids I mean they've so severely severely severely limited what disciplinary action you can do
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I I know when I uh was going to school it it wasn't uncommon for a teacher to strike a student that was misbehaving I mean they do that now and they could probably lose their job
[speaker002:] exactly right lose their job and and big lawsuit and all that
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I feel that's got a lot to do with it people aren't as afraid of misbehaving as they used to be
[speaker001:] right right yeah uh seems uh a be a subject that I I don't have much to say on
[speaker002:] really we've we've talked some about it in my state because we've have a lot of uh problems well our governor that just got thrown out of office was trying to be real big on education but he wasn't
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and a lot of his problems had to do with money mostly I know a lot a lot of if you have more money it's just logical that you can provide a better school system
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and unfortunately there's not many places to get that money
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] then if you don't have qualified teachers in the different subject areas I know one of my physics professors at college has has addressed this that most of the teachers at the um elementary and high school level aren't scientists they're teachers and they may not know a lot about what they're teaching where as they may have just had a teaching major
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] and then had some social studies courses and they're trying to teach social studies and they don't know a lot about that
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] where maybe a physics professor he my professor was a physics professor and he said a lot of teachers teaching physics today have no background in physics at the high school level so therefore they're teaching from a teacher's point of view and not from a physicist point of view and that causes a lot of trouble
[speaker001:] right yeah I don't know maybe they should sit back and and kind of uh decide on where the money's best spent I know in lot of cases uh different districts like to have nice fancy schools
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and maybe they should be a little more uh uh concerned with paying the right people to teach and and be uh satisfied with maybe a little older school
[speaker002:] exactly because I mean here in uh the county where I went to high school one of the the the four high schools in my county one of the high schools was blown away by a tornado so when they rebuilt that school they had a a top of the line high tech school there and the other schools were built back in maybe the fifties or early sixties
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and then when uh evaluation committees came through they praised the school that had been rebuilt while they were down grading all these other ones telling them what they need to do to fix up this building and this and this and this and so it it kind of would make you think that we'd all be better off if all the schools were blown away by tornadoes and we had to rebuild them
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well I I I know uh where I came from uh we didn't have a very uh rich community and uh high school that I went to was uh very old and um as far as uh I know it's still there they've expanded expanded on it but they've never build a new one and it's probably fifty sixty years old or or better
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I don't foresee them uh building a new one for a long time because they can't afford it
[speaker002:] exactly that's