From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 22:54:15 BST
On 24 Jul 2005 at 15:22, Arlo J. Bensinger wrote:
On education:
[Platt]
2) If high schools educated to higher standards than is now deemed
acceptable, the diploma could be much more meaningful. (If pigs could
fly . ..:-)
msh 7-24-05:
Many public high schools are excellent. Why? Because they are in
neighborhoods with a tax-base to adequately compensate teachers,
provide computers, books, lab equipment, and other educational
materials, as well as to provide safe, clean, and uncrowded
environments for learning. So, rather than privitizing education and
playing the vouchers game, why not shift some of the tax base from
wealthy communities to poorer ones? Or, why not dip into the state
and federal tax base in order to bring the public education system of
poorer communities into line with public schools in the wealthy
communities? Why are we asked to be satisfied with great public
education for kids from wealthy families, while kids from poorer
families go without?
These are rhetorical questions, of course. The drive to dismantle
public education has no more to do with providing better education
than Bechtel's privitization of water in Bolivia had to do with
providing people with affordable water. It's all about limiting an
essential societal service to those who can afford to pay whatever
they're charged for it, and to hell with everybody else, even if this
results in the destabilization of society. This is a violation of
MOQ morality.
As for supporting education after high school, I think it is in
society's best interest to pay the freight for anyone whose career
objective is directly connected to the betterment of society, GPs and
pediatricians and heart surgeons, not liposuctionists; public
defenders not corporate lawyers; architects who will design schools
and libraries and hospitals rather than Hearst Castles and
Rockefeller Centers. The principle is sound; the details can be
worked out.
Anyone agree?
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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