I keep asking myself if public education will be there for my grandkids? As I see lawmakers move to privatize it and give us all tax breaks/voucher or whatever they want to call it, I want to know where will it stop? I see us moving to a system of haves and have nots. Even with all of its flaws, we have the best system of mass education the world has ever known. When we compare our kids in poverty with kids in poverty in every country around the world, we win. When we compare our privileged with the rest of the world, we win. Yet lawmakers want to destroy years of collaboration in guise of saving money or removing all of the bad teachers the 'union' forces them to keep. I can't help but draw a parallel to the Book of Mormon when people had because of their ability to gain an education.
12 And the people began to be distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning; yea, some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did receive great learning because of their riches.
Are we headed to a generation of ranks?
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