Defunding public education means Washingtons’ kids GET lost.
Ed. I aplogize for the pun, but someone needs to kick our representatives in the ass .. their ass and not the horse’s ass. Russia is ahead of us. With the fall of the evil communists, the evil capitalists have gone a long way to flush Russia’s once great education system down the drain. After all, THEIR kids proabaly go to private schools in Switzerland.
We keep this up and any day now the difference between the US and Russia will be that their rich folks live in a colder climate.
from Carl at HorsesAss
(excerpts) Now, I realize that college tuition isn’t cheap for parents, so it won’t be cheap for the state. As much as dedicating a source of funding is usually the worse policy, I think that’s the way to go. You figure out how much it’ll cost to make college free across the state, and then figure out the source of money. That way if there’s a referendum to oppose the taxes, you can say that it is a vote against free college.I know, I know, lots of people push for a high tuition and high financial aid model that many schools (public and private) have. Still our public schools ought to be that, public. And just as we don’t expect the wealthy to pay for public K-12, we shouldn’t expect them to pay a for public college education (outside of taxes). Surely just like the PTSA for K-12, there will be opportunities for wealthy people to pay more, but it shouldn’t be a requirement. There are some things that the market works great for, but education isn’t one of them.
(Back at GET, the WA saving program for college) Winners and losers aside, there is then a pot of money that people paid in. I recommend not spending it. I know, I know, in this economy and with my proposal of a major new spending increase, it’s hard to imagine the legislature not spending it down. But I recommend keeping it in place so that if and when future legislatures decide to increase tuition again, that we can revamp GET with that money.
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Posted 10 Apr 2011 by theaveeditor
in Schools & Colleges