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May. 28th, 2005 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaFrom here:
Given that the liberal elements of our materially blessed society have not insisted upon equal free and universal education for every citizen at any and all cost---as does nearly every other civilized industrial nation---they are now paying the price of their own self-interest. For thirty years the behavior and actions of rank and file liberals have spoken for them, even if their mouths have not: "Hey, my family gets everyone through college, so fuck the rednecks over there in Dogpatch!" That worked fine for a while. A very long while. But now that working class resentments are stoked by the ultracon media, political and entertainment elite, well, liberals are genuinely fucked. I don't know a single one who acknowledges the real seat of the problem---lack of universal education and programs to stimulate and inspire youth toward it.
I know this is true, and I know most of what people call 'the failure' of public education comes from one part lack of imagination, one part lack of collaboration in figuring out best practices, and lack of real funding (and the next person who says money won't solve the problem will have me kicking in their monitor and giving them $30 to repair it).
So, I am wondering, where do I start? Me, the one with lots of money in loans, who thought college meant liberty? Who didn't like the kids in my school, but want in an abstract to help them get a clue?
What do I do?
(Also has a bit about immigrants turning into greedy asses after several years in the US. Could be cause of statistics of people who just arrived in the US having a better self-image than second generation immigrants. I mean, if you're not rich, and every medium is telling you that you are crap if you're not, you'd snap too).
Given that the liberal elements of our materially blessed society have not insisted upon equal free and universal education for every citizen at any and all cost---as does nearly every other civilized industrial nation---they are now paying the price of their own self-interest. For thirty years the behavior and actions of rank and file liberals have spoken for them, even if their mouths have not: "Hey, my family gets everyone through college, so fuck the rednecks over there in Dogpatch!" That worked fine for a while. A very long while. But now that working class resentments are stoked by the ultracon media, political and entertainment elite, well, liberals are genuinely fucked. I don't know a single one who acknowledges the real seat of the problem---lack of universal education and programs to stimulate and inspire youth toward it.
I know this is true, and I know most of what people call 'the failure' of public education comes from one part lack of imagination, one part lack of collaboration in figuring out best practices, and lack of real funding (and the next person who says money won't solve the problem will have me kicking in their monitor and giving them $30 to repair it).
So, I am wondering, where do I start? Me, the one with lots of money in loans, who thought college meant liberty? Who didn't like the kids in my school, but want in an abstract to help them get a clue?
What do I do?
(Also has a bit about immigrants turning into greedy asses after several years in the US. Could be cause of statistics of people who just arrived in the US having a better self-image than second generation immigrants. I mean, if you're not rich, and every medium is telling you that you are crap if you're not, you'd snap too).
