My comment to Jennifer Fox's http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139
We must create the public will to support the resources $$$ our children merit, deserve and need. I’m glad for you and the rest out there with the vision, the charisma and the writing chops to keep the vision focused on children’s assets. The taxpayer relief movement focuses on physical property assets as if those are the ultimately most important and tangible…and most in need of defense from ‘bad govmint’.
California used to have a fairly good educational system until Prop. 13 and the ‘taxpayer relief’ brand of common (as in lowest common denominator) sense took hold and now that educational system is pretty much going down the toilet.
Money and resources for public education make a huge difference for our economic future. (I’m personally more interested in justice, compassion and the furtherance of the democratic dream, but I don’t think that sells these days.)
The harsh truth for the long haul: you can’t have a secure economic future without equity and excellence in public education.
More than the Department of Defense budget, more than the bailout of our private sector big-betting gamblers that are sinking the economies of the whole world, we must, as a nation, decide that our children are our future.
We must act and vote accordingly.