I have been amazed at how much time, effort, and money the Stand Up For Croydon Students crowd has put into trying to pilfer more money from their neighbors though higher taxation. Can you imagine if such effort went into helping the school board reach that $800,000 budget?
$22,000 per student is greedy.
$10,000 per student is generous.
If you agree with the $800,000 budget, stay home May 7.
Cathy Peschke
“Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships — the one-day variety or longer — these are all powerful, cheap, and effective ways to start a real reform of schooling. But no large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of “school” to include family as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents — and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 — we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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