Should Education be the next Civil Rights Movement?
Yes
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No
Side Score: 4
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It could be a Civil Rights issue. When you consider that education is often funded by property taxes (which are already morally dubious), it's easy to understand how poorer areas end up with inferior education. When you recognize the race/poverty correlation, you might draw the conclusion that using property taxes to fund education keeps poor, uneducated people in their circumstance. That will often mean that it keeps minorities poor and uneducated. Couple that with the fact that it is often illegal to put your kids in the school of the neighboring district, and punishable by jail time, then what you have is a system that keeps poor and minorities down and locks them in a cage for trying to climb up and out. The system is poorly constructed. More money won't fix it (much is already spent on secondary education). We need to restructure. We can start by making it easier to fire bad teachers and abolishing property tax (you shouldn't have to rent what you own). Side: Yes
The irony is Trump and his side see "choice" as the reason it needs a civil rights movement. But they don't care so much about opportunity to receive any at all. Yes, education needs a civil rights movement to ensure ALL kids have access to a quality education. I think you will find the folks worried about choice don't really care if someone is left with zero choice (meaning they can't get ANY education) they're only concerned with giving them a choice to traditional public education, because they want to cut that money. Side: Yes
If you read my post you will find a significant concern with choice. I haven't seen anyone advocate for an actual absence of education. Advocating for a choice between alternatives is not the same as supporting the absence of alternatives altogether, rather the opposite. Side: Yes
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