Steve Chabot: “as a former schoolteacher myself, I would like to review the liberals' record on the issue of education in this country.…”

“as a former schoolteacher myself, I would like to review the liberals' record on the issue of education in this country. In the 1960s, the liberals decided to ``dumb down'' the curriculum and now across the country academic rigor is absent from many of our public schools. The predictable result is that student achievement in many areas has plummeted. The liberals also decided that self-esteem was in and that actual knowledge was out. The liberals embraced bogus, faddish teaching methods and produced a generation of children who never learned to read. And now the liberals oppose legislation we recently passed here in Congress which would allow parents to put their own money in accounts and not to pay tax on the money in those accounts for educating their children, kindergarten through high school. They say it would somehow hurt the public schools. Baloney. Let us make it a little easier for parents, particularly middle-class parents, to provide a quality education for their children.”