Defend Public Education
Public education is
being undermined with exorbitant charges and increasing fees for
everything from books to music and sports and school lunches and
after-school programs.
The required list of supplies parents
have to provide grows every year... supplies that should be provided for
free as part of a public education.
Big business profiteers are undermining public education along with the bankers who keep our public schools in constant debt.
Every year the list of what students and parents need to pay for grows by leaps and bounds; this is unconscionable.
Public education should be free; and free from fees for books or school lunches or anything else.
School boards are dominated by real estate and other business interests
who see public programs like education as a threat except when they can
scheme and scam to make a profit.
Superintendents and school administrators are over-paid while teachers and other education workers are under-paid.
The entire purpose of public education is being undermined by the likes
of the billionaire John Bircher Betsy De Vos, Trump’s Secretary of
Education.
Pre-school through university should be completely free, paid for by general revenue funds.
It will be a great day when the generals have to hold bake-good sales
and public education is financed with a Peace Dividend instead of
rapidly rising regressive property taxes which are driving down the
standard-of-living of working class families. Increase the taxes on
big-business, the oil and gas industry and big agri-business to help pay
for public education.
The right wing believes it is only
necessary to provide a limited amount of education for working people...
just enough education to enable workers to be employed at their poverty
waged jobs.
The intent of Wall Street is to eliminate public
education... in the meantime these Wall Street investors will continue
to undermine our system of public education so people lose confidence in
public education so people will not band together to defend public
education.
The filthy rich are so arrogant they truly believe only their children are worthy of receiving an education.
Wall Street wants to return to private for-profit market-driven
education... their model for education is based on their private
for-profit market-driven health care system.
No universal social
program works better than public education when it is properly funded
and properly administered and delivered by caring and concerned teachers
and education workers who are adequately paid who share an empathy for
our youth and who concerned for their future.
Public education...
Publicly funded.
Publicly administered.
Publicly delivered.
We need to build a National Public Health Care System created around the model of public education.
Defend public education...
Advocate for a National Public Health Care System.
Advocate for a National Public Child Care System.
Pay for it all with a Peace Dividend and get the greedy fingers of big
business, real estate developers, construction firms, book publishers
and the banks out of the public till.
Profiteers feeding at the
public trough, who also think they have the right to dictate what is
taught, are undermining public education.
Public education did not exist in this country until workers demanded it; workers must defend public education.
Alan Maki
Contact: 512-517-2708
e-mail: red_finn@live.com
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