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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (494216)

7/9/2022 9:53:58 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 543012

Our educational system is a travesty because our politicians don't care about education.

It was illegal for Blacks and Whites to marry in 16 states until the Loving / Virginia decision in 1967.

Now think how fucking barbaric that position is and yet 16 states had it on their laws. I expect they are all or near all Republican states.

So in these states the voters vote in the most reprehensible idiots over and over and so they get seniority and that mentality has been ruling us for 50 years.

And they don't care a bit about education. In fact many just see it as a factory that produces liberals.

There is our problem and it just got worse-lol!!

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Jocks and beauty contestants aren't cultivated for intelligencce, though she may have been reasonably intelligent but easily flustered. But education is a societal investment; we did fairly well because of the GI Bill. But later, and it hasn't gotten any better:

Returning home from World War II service as a gunner on an Army Air Forces bomber, Mike M. Machado went to St. Mary's University here with all expenses paid.

"My rich uncle sent me to college -- Uncle Sam," said Mr. Machado, now 70 years old, who went on to earn a law degree and become a state judge. Under the G.I. Bill, he received full tuition of $85 a semester and a monthly stipend of $250 that covered the living expenses of his family of four.

Almost 50 years later, Jacqueline Williams got out of the Air Force and entered a two-year college, but the $4,800 a year she receives under the G.I. bill did not begin to cover her tuition. It will cover even less when Ms. Williams begins a nursing program this fall at Incarnate Word College here, where the tuition is $13,500. She draws from Federal student loans and holds two jobs to pay her expenses.

A half century after Congress passed the G.I. Bill, a debate over the.....

nytimes.com

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (494216)	7/9/2022 10:01:44 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543012

I sold real estate for years and the people I worked with were all Republicans and had a mentality that students should work their way through college. At a staff meeting one day, I told them I paid for everything the kids needed to go to college. And the one women surprisingly ask me a great question:" what is your theory on that"-lol. I said both kids were doing very well in college and so they are doing their job and mine is supporting them. I didn't want them to waste time selling shoes for $6 and hour when I made a $100. I wanted them to develop their minds. I also raised both with NO punishment and never had a bit of problems with either, never had to tell them to do their homework even once, and one bopped her way in to Berkeley and is a lawyer and the other a scientist. And they both married great guys and have long term marriages of tranquility-no fighting ever-lol. But I got a lot of pressure at times to punish them. But of course I never caved-lol!