Summary Of The Finlands Phenomenon

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Even though America has sixty times the population of Finland and no ideas from ‘The Finland Phenomenon’ are original, one can still believe that some of the proposed ideas can be a possibility within America. In ‘The Finland Phenomenon’ they say Finnish politicians understand the school system and the importance of education, here in America this clearly is not the case as we have many American politicians whom don’t even seem to care about their education system and want to lower the education budget even more than it already is. In fact our latest president Donald Trump has cut the public education budget severely, so he can build his fifty-five foot wall, however he fails to realize that there are sixty foot ladders.
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