The majority of our school funding being provided by way of property taxes is a passive form of oppression. Access to the finest education remaining in the hands of a few is the way an unjust system ensures that *power* remains in the hands of a few.mariannewilliamson.substack.…

Nov 10, 2021 · 5:52 AM UTC

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There is no good public education. And except as daycare, it is completely redundant. Info is widely available, and parents can provide the necessary guidance if they are taxed less and have more time to be present.
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Oy🤦🏻‍♀️
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The funding source isn't he problem (property taxes (more specifically, land taxes) are quite good!), it's fragmented and exclusionary municipalities and school districts that are at fault here What we need are unilateral annexation regimes and busing to overcome segregation
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I lived in Detroit. Beg to differ.
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Thats where a big corrupt govt gets us.
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“Children… They’re not our property. They are full on citizens of The United States Of America. Where’s their right to pursue happiness?” Marianne Williamson #USDeptOfChildrenandYouth
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1st act is NFTA & GATT that shipped millions of good paying jobs overseas depriving communities of all form of taxes. The 2nd act is teacher unions, they could care less about your innocents. 3rd act is unbridled immigration that has turned many public schools into no go zones.
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The US "credit economy" is a system of financial peonage - class slavery Republicans pass tax cuts to the top, Democrats use the Parliamentarian to prevent a living wage $1.6 Trillion in student debt, American youth in financial peonage for decades nbcnews.com/think/opinion/st…

Opinion | The student debt crisis threatens the American way of life

We can't keep higher education in reach of all Americans if we don't do something to to tackle student loans.

nbcnews.com
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Sad that the democrats haven’t fixed this or even tried.
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I beg to differ, our public school district receives $17,500 per child. Only 10% of high school kids can read at grade level, and 12% can perform math at grade level. In Illinois I pay $500 a month in property tax on my modest home.. and have to pay an addition $4000 for
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