Ah, details! Here I was just being reactionary and purposefully caustic. Funding public schools properly would be an amazingly expensive proposition but well worth it in my imaginary utopia. All school districts would have equal access to resources and equipment. Teachers would be much better paid. Teachers should have more rigorous licensing standards, educational requirements, but to make up for it should be paid more along the lines of doctors. College should be equally available to all economic classes, highly subsidized for all students. Yes I'd go along with banning religious schools entirely in this imaginary utopia because the public schools would be fixed.
I have become more and more anti-organized religion in the last eight years. Redesign the tax system entirely. Big churches are a lamprey attached to the poorest, least educated, and most in need segment of our population. Watch the 700 Club and their fund raising message testimonials of poor families who can't make ends meet, then decide to tithe, then are blessed by Jesus with wealth. Tax these bloated leeches. Tax the Zen Temple too. It'll be better in the long run.
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Date: 2008-09-06 08:33 pm (UTC)Funding public schools properly would be an amazingly expensive proposition but well worth it in my imaginary utopia.
All school districts would have equal access to resources and equipment. Teachers would be much better paid. Teachers should have more rigorous licensing standards, educational requirements, but to make up for it should be paid more along the lines of doctors. College should be equally available to all economic classes, highly subsidized for all students. Yes I'd go along with banning religious schools entirely in this imaginary utopia because the public schools would be fixed.
I have become more and more anti-organized religion in the last eight years. Redesign the tax system entirely. Big churches are a lamprey attached to the poorest, least educated, and most in need segment of our population. Watch the 700 Club and their fund raising message testimonials of poor families who can't make ends meet, then decide to tithe, then are blessed by Jesus with wealth. Tax these bloated leeches. Tax the Zen Temple too. It'll be better in the long run.