School System Was Never Broken Until The Reagan Devil And GOP Broke It.

[madamesilverspurs]

27. I've confessed here before

that I used to be a Republican. I hadn't voted that ticket for some time, but had never felt the need to drive across town to the clerk's office to change that affiliation. But it had become increasingly distasteful, and there finally came a moment when it became imperative to severe those ties.

That moment was when William Bennett, Reagan's 'Secretary of Trashing Education' announced what they intended to do about funding our schools. I was listening to the news at work, and put down my project and thought "Holy crap, we're screwed."

I've been thinking about that a lot these last few days, given that those Colorado students protesting the tea party school board attend school in the district where I began my own education back in the 1950s.