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COMMENTARY Education Is a Right The government attacks on education are widespread and deepening. Across the country, universities are raising tuition while limiting the scope and quality of courses. At the primary education level, school districts are being forced to begin the school year with conditions known to be, as one principal put it, "way beyond what is good academically." The main solution given by the federal government, as expressed in the No Child Left Behind Act, is to further punish the schools through more funding cuts. While Bush and Congress are pushing through almost $400 billion in military spending for the coming year, schools are scrambling to provide chalk. Nationwide, schools are being thrown into further chaos as they strive to meet the federal government mandates or lose more funding. The failure of the government to meet the claims of the youth for an education on a par with the modern society they are born into can also be seen in the increasing segregation of the schools. Over 130 years since the end of the Civil War and almost 50 years since segregation of schools was outlawed, segregation is increasing. The desire of youth from all backgrounds and nationalities to learn together is being blocked through government actions to keep schools and communities segregated and to reduce education to passing this or that test. The current wrecking of education reveals that every child is being left behind and society as a whole is being left behind as well. At a time when all the resources are readily available to guarantee the right to education not only to all in the U.S. but worldwide, the U.S. is guaranteeing only more racism, more poverty and more war. Conditions are demanding that there is an alternative and the people themselves, organizing to provide all rights with a guarantee, are it. ============== Joshua M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
