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Should Education be the next Civil Rights Movement?

During Donald Trump's address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, he said "education is the civil rights issue of our time". I would say education is more of crusade then a civil rights issue. However, he is right when saying education is lacking among young Americans today. Do you think education should be a Civil Rights Issue and should there be a movement for it?


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Yes. And you should start by cutting your military budget and putting it into education.

Side: Yes
Amarel(5669) Disputed
2 points

There's plenty of money going nowhere in our education system as it is. It's not a problem of funding. Throwing more money at the problem won't find a solution so much as waste more money.

Side: No

Well, a reform is certainly in order - but a reform of that magnitude would require more money than that which is currently given.

Side: No
1 point

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
1 point

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
Amarel(5669) Clarified
2 points

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
Grenache(6053) Clarified
1 point

Then for the record I will fully support choice, as long as it doesn't mean decimation of funding for public education.

But I do believe it will. And when it happens I'm going to come back to you on this.

Side: Yes
1 point

I think we should strip the world of the educated and have a new order of the stupid people.

Side: No
sylynn(626) Disputed
1 point

Seems like we've been headed in that direction for some time now

Side: Yes