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Virginia Witmer's avatar

Don’t forget that our public education system was attacked by the Kochs and their ilk years ago. We have lost teaching sources, thought and tolerance, and our universities have become job training centers. “Shop” is gone from high schools as is home economics, which puts US at the mercy of corporate power and Madison Avenue.

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Nancy Fleming's avatar

I'm well aware of the attempts to gut public schools. "Moderate" Gov. Brian Kemp here in Georgia just signed into law a new school voucher bill for "underperforming public schools," giving parents @ $7,500 annually to send their children to private schools - yet another instance of undermining public education, rather than giving much needed financial aid to public education. Why would his ilk be concerned with preparing young people with skills that everyone really can use, whether or not they choose a university education or a trade to make a living?

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Virginia Witmer's avatar

Thank you for throwing in private schools. This is a reversion to 1954 , racist and divisive!

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Nancy Fleming's avatar

Yup - everything old is new again.

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