Education In America – One Child One Dollar

In politics the Democratic Ideal has been briefly expressed in the pithy phrase “One Man, One Vote”.

Education in America is deplorable, that is, except for the Wealthiest of Communities. You see, schools in America are funded from Property Taxes. So it is that Rich Communities have good education, but wherever land values fall beneath a certain level, well, Education in that Community simply is not paid for, beyond that certain level. Rich Communities have schools with marble floors and a computer on every desk. Poor schools are shut down for hygiene problems half the time and the students don’t even get individualized books. They go home told to study for tests but don’t even have the books to study from.

Amazingly, although this biased and unequal means of funding has been challenged time and time again in the Courts, the Judges, probably all good Country Club Members and Protestants, have ruled that it is only Good and Proper that Poor Children should go to Poor Schools. Huh!?

Oh, and it has always been consistently denied that the Republican Party has deliberately plotted to keep the Schools dysfunctional because studies have proven that Stupid People vote Republican.

Anyway, in our coming Brave New World of Obamanomics, I am sure that Education Reform will come into discussion. First, they should decide to toss out all those Corrupt Judges who ruled in favor of the most heinous and unfair policies designed to monopolize Privilege to the existing Privileged Communities. Oh, it’s a favorite Doctrine among Protestants, that the Rich are the Elect and that the Elect are the Rich … after Sinning was made Forgivable with the Doctrine of Salvation, the next Doctrinal step was to figure out a way Sinning itself could be turned to a Profit. Anyway, these Judges need to go. The Politics of Protecting Entrenched Privilege needs to go to.

Moving on, my first thoughts would be to say that every State should educate all children equally. But then we only expand the Problem, of having Rich States with Good Schools and Poor States with Poor Schools. So, really, Education needs to be Nationalized, with the Federal Government picking up the expenses of All Education Everywhere. Also, we need to understand that the existence of Private Schools to a huge degree shields Rich People from any anxiety at all in regards to the condition of Public Education. And these Rich People are the most Politically Influential. Perhaps Private Schools should be banned, or Nationalized, to be set aside for Students of proven Merit. If the Rich and Powerful were threatened with the possibility that their children would have to have the Same Education as other children, then maybe they, with all their Power and Influence, could do something positive, for a change.

Oh, the same Argument works for Medical Care. While Rich People can buy their own Health Care, while they can have their own 4 Star Doctors in Private Clinics, again, with the most lavish marble floors, they will hardly care at all for the Collective Health Care allotted out to the Common people, what we can call “Cracked Tile Floor Coverage”.

Incidentally, in a Society funded by a Progressive Tax, good Education makes good Economic sense. A Highly Educated Society will be a more affluent Society, paying more taxes, thus paying, again and again and again, for the Education it had received. But Bad Education only sends children to adult Prison, and that is only a black hole expense.

By making Education equal for all, we not only become equal. We become better.