Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed?
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week agoI don’t know how yu do this when so much school funding is local. I’ve always lived in areas that valued education agiin and we’re willing to pay for it. However no matter how much my taxes increase, it won’t help those kids in places with less money or not willing to invest in it.
It’s a much bigger ask to turn school funding into a national thing.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
In my state, they passes legislation that distributed school funding equally across the entire state, so that impoverished areas would have just as good of an education as the wealthy ones. People bitched about their taxes going up, but otherwise have been no downsides.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not entirely sure how opi feel about that: spending the same on educating all students is surely a good thing and I’m sure this benefitted more than it hurt. However, the punishment for deciding to spend even more seems inappropriate
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
If you and your neighbors have the means, then you could opt for private tutoring if you feel your public school is not adequate.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sure, but my point is that while all kids deserve a well funded education system, all kids deserve high standards, all kids deserve all the opportunity, politics will still determine that level. We clearly already have a situation where different places have wildly different ideas of the value of a good education, and putting a cap on spending won’t change that
But it’s different to say a town shouldn’t pay more. I’ll vote for better funding for schools whereever they’re needed to bring all kids’ future up to my standards, even at the expense of my increased taxes to pay for it, but I will not let them limit my kids’ future down to their regressive standards.