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7. You can spend that money on a school now, or spend it on a jail later ...

Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:47 AM

Apr 2016

(Quote from something I read years ago ... apocryphaly paraphrasing Mark Twain ?)

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The best argument I ever heard for public funded education came from a Republican [View all] KelleyKramer Apr 2016 OP

Many of them forgot it, elleng Apr 2016 #1

This article is from 1998 but it still applies Jim Beard Apr 2016 #2

The reason the US took the lead in free public education 1939 Apr 2016 #4

Nice deflection 1939 Apr 2016 #6

You were talking classical Arabic schools 1939 Apr 2016 #16

You can spend that money on a school now, or spend it on a jail later ... eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #7

The choice from "our" government ...Private for profit prisons... SammyWinstonJack Apr 2016 #15

+1 Blue_Tires Apr 2016 #14

Not only that, places with good schools have high property values KamaAina Apr 2016 #12