Originally Posted by Guest

Damned if you do nothing and dammed if you try something.

"The report urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices," Posters understand why computer security measures must be standardized. Why can't police training and practices? I don't think you can jump to the conclusion this is the beginning of a national police force.

Wasn't that tried in education with No Child Left Behind? These were the NCLB goals:
All students will achieve high academic standards by attaining proficiency or better in reading and mathematics by the 2013–2014 school year.
Highly qualified teachers will teach all students
All students will be educated in schools and classrooms that are safe, drug free, and conducive to learning.
All limited English proficient students will become proficient in English.
All students will graduate from high school.

The goals always sound good but it took 6 years for a failing institution to get taken over and restructured. The feds came in and got rid of the dead wood. Other schools that were healthy to begin with had to teach to the test which is not the best way to run a class.


“The danger is that we somehow think the act of a troubled person speaks to some larger political statement across the country — it doesn’t,” Obama insisted. So I don't think he can fix that problem. But I do think he might bring people together and communities together with this effort.

I hope to hear someone else's suggestions and not the usual rhetoric that takes 5 seconds to think and type without any support.