Dress Left or Right?
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I take exception to the negative responses on public education.
All of my primary and secondary education was publicly financed. I didn’t grow up in a wealthy community; my neighborhood, as well as those surrounding it, was a working class (albeit white) neighborhood. I was able to start a freshman year in college with I believe 12 credits, because I tested out of certain basic courses. And thanks to advanced placement classes, I began mathematics at the sophomore level.
In the 1960s, our response to the Cold War was a massive effort in public education. It worked. Our failed attempt to fix public schools is directly attributed to funding. Parents want education for their children. But communities don’t want to pay for it. And the way our regressive tax structure is based, the result has been massive inequities and redistribution of wealth. Our tax system is based on earning more and paying less, when it should be the opposite. Don’t pull out the socialism card. That’s how our tax system was based at the hight of the Cold War, when Russia was our greatest adversary.
Our country has become so bitterly divided, I don’t ever see a way out of it, until a new generation is in political office.
All of my primary and secondary education was publicly financed. I didn’t grow up in a wealthy community; my neighborhood, as well as those surrounding it, was a working class (albeit white) neighborhood. I was able to start a freshman year in college with I believe 12 credits, because I tested out of certain basic courses. And thanks to advanced placement classes, I began mathematics at the sophomore level.
In the 1960s, our response to the Cold War was a massive effort in public education. It worked. Our failed attempt to fix public schools is directly attributed to funding. Parents want education for their children. But communities don’t want to pay for it. And the way our regressive tax structure is based, the result has been massive inequities and redistribution of wealth. Our tax system is based on earning more and paying less, when it should be the opposite. Don’t pull out the socialism card. That’s how our tax system was based at the hight of the Cold War, when Russia was our greatest adversary.
Our country has become so bitterly divided, I don’t ever see a way out of it, until a new generation is in political office.
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