Yep. We are raising an 8 year old but he goes to private school. On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:37 AM Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote:
> Probably the reason K-12 underfunding isn't addressed much here has to do > with the fact that the list is populated by a high proportion of us old > farts and fartesses :-) who are temporally past the age of direct > involvement with K-12 and kids in general. I suspect that the more > politically left-leaning, as well as many of the centrist-leaning > inhabitants would support significantly higher and more evenly distributed > funding of K-12 public education. I would make the same claim for health > care spending. Ultimately, a modern society depends on a well-educated, > healthy citizenry, which the USA seems determined to make a luxury. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:11 AM Angel Edward <edward.an...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> [...] >> Nevertheless, what I see as the overriding issue that doesn’t get >> addressed on this list is the underfunding of public K-12 schools. Whatever >> position any of us might have as what we’d like to see at the college >> level, it isn’t going to happen with the present situation of the public >> schools. As long as the public schools can’t provide an equal education >> for all its students, we can’t expect the colleges to solve the educational >> problem. >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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