Granite Crock: ‘Don’t confuse us with the facts!’

Long ago, a Congressman from my home state gained notoriety when he said, while defending Richard Nixon, ‘Don’t confuse me with the facts.’  I was reminded of this upon reading an article that Steve forwarded to me from the Granite Crock site, which was written to ‘debunk’ something I’d written.

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School funding: Paying $20,000 for $100 worth of content

Towns in New Hampshire pay about $15,000 on average to send a kid to school for one year. If he takes 7 courses, that’s more than $2,000 per course.  If only half of that goes for instruction, that’s $1,000 for a course in, say, American History.  If you’ve got 20 kids in a class, that’s … Read more

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