Re: San Diego UT on Prop 82

[George Sheridan <learn@jps.net>]

Children who attend quality preschool read earlier, learn faster and 
succeed at a far higher rate than those who don't get the opportunity. 
Proposition 82 would provide free, voluntary, quality preschool to all 
4-year-olds in California. (Today, only 20 percent of the state's 
4-year-olds have this opportunity.) Those who oppose this measure for 
various reasons are just making excuses because they don't like the fact 
that Proposition 82 is written so that the very wealthy will be made to 
foot the bill.

The San Diego Union Tribune is even less likely than the Wall Street 
Journal to give good advice on economic or social policy. I'm not sure even 
Rich Gibson meant for us to be swayed by the paper's editorial position. 
Two minutes after posting the message to which you replied, he sent a 
message saying "I'm going to vote for this thing ...
because I don't think it is useful to take what is largely a principle 
(opposition to the capitalist state and its schools) related to most of 
reality, and to force it down onto all of reality, when things are 
sometimes more complex. I am going to vote for this thing because of some 
complexities. ... I think if this thing passes, it creates better terrain 
for social change."




At 06:38 PM 6/5/2006 -0700, Jo Behm wrote:
> Agree Prop 82 should go down.
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> From: Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>
> Reply-To: <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:33:25 -0700
> To: <ca-resisters@interversity.org>
> Subject: [ca-resisters] San Diego UT on Prop 82
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> Prop 82: No, no, no
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> Initiative is badly crafted, deceptively sold

George Sheridan
Northside School
Cool, California 95614