http://michigancitizen.com/court-rules-michigan-has-no-responsibility-to-provide-quality-public-education/
So, apparently we don't actually have to educate children. I have always been a social Darwinist, a jaded cynical educator with radical ideas which are the product of venting. But this is real! Try your best and if the kids are dumb oh well? Move to a better neighborhood? Don't be poor?
As teachers, we get a bum wrap, the shaft, thrown under the bus, insert idiom at infinitum, but we have to try. If we say it is OK not to educate our poorest children in the same month we say it's ok to kill them what future do we have?
In writing most people insert quotes from powerful or notable figures to prove their point. It carries weight and clout. I will say this: the greatness of a people is measure not by its upper echelon but by its lowest caste. Notice that it's not in quotes... why? Because I said it, you can quote me. The treatment of our poorest children is the barometer by which we should judge ourselves. If we choose to or let others kill and incarcerate them instead of educate them who are we?
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