No more Sesame Street in Pakistan

[R_Bert]

Just so you know...

http://news.yahoo.com/us-terminates-funding-pakistani-sesame-street-101418625.html

and of course it is due to "corruption".

My opinion, the corruption started well before the funds were delivered to the Paks.

[JAB]

Even without the corruption allegations, my takeaway from the article was this:

So, while schools in the U.S. seem to be having trouble finding enough funding we are sending millions of dollars, apparently with little oversight, to help develop educational programming in other countries, like Pakistan. Anyone else see a problem there?

[MacGyver]

Even without the corruption allegations, my takeaway from the article was this:

So, while schools in the U.S. seem to be having trouble finding enough funding we are sending millions of dollars, apparently with little oversight, to help develop educational programming in other countries, like Pakistan. Anyone else see a problem there?

If it were really a matter of money that we're putting into schools, we'd have the smartest kids in the world. Too bad it doesn't really work that way - despite what most politicians and teachers' unions would have us believe.

[R_Bert]

If it were really a matter of money that we're putting into schools, we'd have the smartest kids in the world. Too bad it doesn't really work that way - despite what most politicians and teachers' unions would have us believe.

As they say, "It takes a village to raise an idiot"....

Edited June 7, 2012 by R_Bert