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14. The more that education is demonized, the worse things will get...

Reply to Buckeyeblue (Reply #5)

Tue May 23, 2017, 06:45 AM

May 2017

Across all grades. Red states are now fond of referring to public schools as "government schools," as if to add some dreaded leftist toxin into the mix. College is unaffordable for far too many; it can't even exist as a dream.

Add to this a steady drip of Fox News disinformation, right-wing hate radio and fundamentalist rigidity. It doesn't look too favorable for an era of enlightenment to be ushered in any time soon.

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He's right. Buckeyeblue May 2017 #5

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The more that education is demonized, the worse things will get... VOX May 2017 #14

+1! berksdem May 2017 #18

Thanks! I say that out loud every chance I get! Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #6

Which is true -- and why it was so wrong for so many people pnwmom May 2017 #7

Yes! Thank you! VOX May 2017 #16

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