Your party has been doing everything it can to destroy our public education system — cutting funds, reducing the nurturing of the human mind to one number on a standardized test at the end of the year (too late to do the teacher any good), deprofessionalizing and demonizing teachers.
I could go on and on, but you and I both know what I’m talking about: You want to privatize education so if we absolutely must spend public money on educating the children of the masses, at least your billionaire cronies like Rupert Murdoch will get to put a big slice of that $500 billion pot into their pockets. And the path to that goal involves ensuring that public education fails, so privatization will seem like the solution to an intractable problem.
A few years ago, before the all-out assault on public education, there was a push in the educational community to expand early childhood education — full-day kindergarten, expanded pre-school, more funding for Head Start. I’m sure you remember — even that Bush guy and his wife were on board.
Now, of course, that is out of the question. Adding more educational services? That’s a laugh. It’s taking everything those of us in education can do — much of it using our own private funds because you took the money away from our schools — to provide just the basic minimum.
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