LTTE: All deserve access to free education

[YankeyMCC]

A very nice LTTE I saw in today's Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2005/06/14/all_deserve_access_to_free_education/

(snip)

Our country's founders, enlightened thinkers, saw in their burgeoning democracy the danger that the masses might be coerced and controlled by a minority. They knew that the best antidote to this was to make certain that every citizen had access to an education, rendering us free to make educated decisions, especially about our own governance. Jacoby's idea of a free-market education system would insure a governmental system based on class structure, in which those who could afford quality education would rule over those who could not. It could only mean the destruction of our democratic system.

(snip)

Link to the Jacoby piece referred to (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/12/separating_school_and_state/)

[sam sarrha]

1. does educating to passing a test qualify as education..??

aparently in Florida the 3RD GRADERS ARE RELLY GETTING A GOOD EDUCATION, seems thay cant get them to pass the test.. and they are REALLY backing up in the schools..it is an epidemic.