Originally recorded by Roy’s group The Foremen (“Best of The Foreman” CD available at royzimmerman.com ), “California Couldn’t Pay Our Education” is performed here by Roy, Joe and Sam Zimmerman and Jon Brockway at the Soper-Reese Theatre in Lakeport, CA.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
LOL, I wish Roy Zimmerman was my uncle…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Government has done a great job at running the school system in most states.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
what a talented family!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Yes, because it’s totally impossible to be an intelligent individual without a degree.
I keep forgetting people keep equating the two.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
So we just have to make sure that only those with masters degrees become parents, and problem solved?
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I feel like there is a flaw there, but I just don’t see it…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Basically, public education is failing everywhere. Government cannot be trusted to run schools. A school voucher system could be the answer perhaps?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
You people really ARE stupid! CA had the best public education sys in the US. Then the GOP decided they didn’t like people being educated enough to question the GOP. So they started a fake “tax revolution” and killed CA’s schools. Then they spread that crap to the rest of the US. Now, you are all paying the price of a dead “education.” Yet, you bitch about dems, the ones who tried to stop this GOP insult. Well,all you suckers who follow the republican (and libertarian) parties-YOU LOSE!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
I’ve been in seven state’s worth of public school, and i can say that nothing public school brings to the table can top tutelage by parents with master’s degrees.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
I’m from Georgia. Where are we in education? Forty fuckin’ ninth bitches.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
ME TOO!
In terms of funding for public education, we’re fifty-first in the nation, behing all fifty states and Puerto Rico.
If you’re still in the state, I encourage you come down to the capitol the next time there is a rally protesting the budget cuts to education in our state. The last one was sponsored by AEA. They’ll most likely sponsor the next big one as well.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
As someone who is the product of the Iowa school system (home of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills!) I can tell you it doesn’t get much better.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Nice key change, man!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Everyone’s whining about their school system. Ohio is and has been nationally notorious for its abysmal education system, which I am a prodduckt [sic] of. the Ohhioo publick edyoukation sistem, has maid me. [sic]. :p
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
I’m a product of the Arizona public school system. From what I’ve heard, it’s one of the worst (state superintendent on a crusade against Ethnic Studies classes, and a legislature that periodically guts the education budget).
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Just light up a joint and pay more taxes; things will get much better then; at lease until all the companies and working people leave California.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
took errr jobs
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
California could have paid your damned education if it weren’t having to pay for all the freakin’ illegals!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
So you think you can get people to make choices by demanding them to do it?
People will only make choices when they need to or feel like. Out of these two, need is one thing that is predictable. John Adams felt the need.. I guess modern students don’t feel the need because life doesn’t require us to reach the hard-to-reach anymore. Perhaps we should let them see the problems of this world that they can solve in return for resources they would love to have more of.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Woah. His kids are really tall too.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Which often explains why the children to going to public school in the first place.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Maybe the parents don’t know how to balance their checkbooks either?
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
A very talented family! Bravo!
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
If you are dumb and uneducated your parents probably sucked hard.
People on an MSNBC morning show were talking about the economy and spending (near Christmas), and they were saying that the economy would be better if schools taught students how to manage a checkbook and personal finance. Why can’t parents do that?!? Maybe if people weren’t so lazy the schools could spend more time on education and less on raising the offspring of braindead nanny-state sheeple debt slaves.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
I know. That was in the days long before billboards everywhere saying “ARE YOU HURT?”
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Not to mention that Abraham Lincoln WAS a lawyer… dumbass