• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    One of the reasons we got public education in the first was that the factory owners needed workers who could learn how to operate complex machines and do math. Easier to get the public to pay than teach them on the owner’s dime.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, but then they moved all the factories to other countries. The public is now just a burden to them for wanting corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.

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        10 months ago

        Once the public have no power and no influence there’s no need to listen to them or consider their needs.

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        10 months ago

        The US still has an enormous manufacturing footprint. Yes, a lot was moved overseas, but hardly all of them.

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    10 months ago

    What clued Ms. Gore into it? Somehow I doubt it was just the fact that the pornographic material in school libraries didn’t exist.

    Post-Dobbs Texas laws have shown that her former party wants to enslave women to their pregnancies to the point of near-death. Even if not about abortion, I suspect it is one of those “I don’t care at all about something until it affects me” type of stories that changed her mind.

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    10 months ago

    There were a lot of wierd canidates in our last school board races. they got shown the door.

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      10 months ago

      In my town the school board weirdo lost by 2 votes. It’s so important to vote in local elections.

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        10 months ago

        geez. yeah I don’t get why folks do not prioritize local. Its the elections that effect you the most. heck I don’t even have kids but I don’t want my area filled with a bunch of ignorant youths in 5 years.

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          10 months ago

          Plus, it’s where the future national candidates typically get their first experience in elected office.

          If you want better candidates in the future “big” elections, make sure to encourage the good ones and ensure the crap ones don’t get on school boards and other local elected positions.

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      10 months ago

      There were a bunch in my areas last school board elections as well.

      Most lost by a large margin, but a couple actually got elected. Both have since been suspended by the boards they are on for violating multiple policies and governance oversight regulations.

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    10 months ago

    What they are relying doing is hi jacking boards to be able to extract all that taxpayer cash via contracting.

    Propaganda is just the cheery for this psyop.

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      10 months ago

      And push their values to impressionable children while they’re at it.

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    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, far right hardliners are taking over local government and school boards in order to sow dissent in pretty much everything.

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    10 months ago

    Wait… There are people that still trust government run institutions to educate their kids?

    The public school system must be worse than I thought, or people are just unwilling to accept that public schools exist to turn our children into cannon fodder for corporations.