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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (494271)

7/10/2022 11:32:55 AM

From: koan

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I don't think I am over simplifying.

I would respond beware of over complicating things e.g. the important thing is to have plenty of affordable public education from K through PHD.

The particulars of those schools are dealt with by local school boards and committees.

That is all that can be done. If not them, who?

And IMO, it is good it is set up like this as it prevents dogma entering the teaching in most instances.

If not a democratically elected school board to make decisions, who then?

My point is that I think the public schools do a fine job. We just need them to be more affordable and more of them like medical schools...

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Its super complex and controversial. Further complicated by race and class politics.

A city next to Oakland was a case study (Emeryville) where large amounts of tax money could not solve the inequities and poor performance of public education there. It was the subject of a PBS program maybe 25 years ago, that appears to have disappeared from the internet. The conclusion was dollars can't buy scholars.

Beware of oversimplifying these problems into funding, or right vs. left. Or humanities vs. math.

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