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Classroom Blog
Charter Private Public
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Subsidies |
Welcome
to our Blog! Do you have an Idea about current
education? Here is a place for you to state what is on
your mind. Please this is not a place to advertise your
company or products! Such a comment will not be posted!
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civil, education related, non threatening, and
non-political. |
The opinion below are the result of
my professional experiences as an:
historian, webmaster, master teacher,
teacher's union vice president and
president, parent and grandparent. |
Charter, Private,
Parochial Schools Vouchers and Subsidies-7:25
Sunday June 17,2017 |
Public education
evolved over time in the United States from the
Boston Latin School to our modern
community supported schools. The underlying hope of
the parents, who paid their taxes and worked to
maintain the mental and physical structures, was
that their children would be educated and thus
develop a better life. Drawing from the
Age of
Reason many felt that an education would make their
children better, more informed citizens. The
evolution was slow and bumpy but steadily improved
the average persons thinking and questioning skills,
creativity and understanding of our world.
Eventually public education became the foundation of
one of the world's greatest most influential middle
class. Many of our religious, political, military
and entrepreneurial leaders arose from the ranks of
public education. Public schools are the great
equalizer of our society.
Today a strong movement is trying to destroy this
foundation and thus undercut the underpinnings of
our middle class and social structure. By shifting
money away from public schools and towards religious
and private systems the public schools are
endanger of collapsing. The movement has for years
undercut funding and support of the public schools
and teachers, then showed outrage when the schools
did not meet their expectations. Now they are
demanding vouchers, subsidies and the creation of
charter schools, which will cripple public schools
and virtually seal its future. We will thus widen
the growing gap in our society, economically,
politically and socially.
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