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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: San Diego UT on Prop 82
George has it right. I actually did it today. I voted. Disgusting. I hope it does not encourage the riff raff. But I voted yes on prop 82 and tried to explain why in that second posting that George Sheridan mentions.. .If anyone wants that, I will send it again, but I won't clog mailboxes with it by sending it now. I have to say that I do not understand the opposition to proposition 82 that comes from the Whole Language movement (and I may be misreading the trends there, but such is how it appears to me---WL is opposed to prop 82). As far as I can tell , the Whole Language opposition believes that preschool kids will be trapped in bad schools and regimented by the curricula of the Empire and high-stakes testing. That could, of course, be true. In addition, some people opposing prop 82 seem to be saying that it will lead to, or assist in, the end of public schooling. I do not follow that logic at all. Bad regimented schooling is already true of the entire K12 world and it is often the same people who are saying we must "defend public education" who say we should defeat prop 82 (there is no such thing as a single public education system in the US, but maybe six or seven utterly segregated and inequitable school systems---ranging from pre prison to pre law depending mostly on race and parental income of the kids in the school--- where teachers for the most part teach lies--nationalism, etc--- to kids using methods that are so incoherent that children not only are unable to unravel the lies, they learn to not like to learn). It is commonplace for teachers in the not-public segregated US school system to pay far more real attention to test scores and grammar than they do to the equity clauses that are written all over US history and its paper constitution. But I still hear passionate calls to "Defend Public Schooling," from people who I respect while at the same time they organize vs prop 82. I honestly do not understand that. If it is true that prop 82 might/will lock preschool kids, the babies, into rotten schools, then just how is it that this mere logical extension of rotten schooling into the whole k12 world needs defending? What MIGHT be bad about the preschools is ALREADY bad about k12. It seems to me that Defending Public Schools and Opposing Prop 82 is contradictory. Perhaps someone can explain why it is not. In any case, I voted yes. And, I tried to make it clear in my earlier posting that I am especially aware that I maybe wrong. That feeling comes from the great respect that I have for people who I am told are voting NO, but they can give me no good reason why they are doing it. I am more than willing, eager to hear the other side of this. I wrote in Susan Harmon for all the other existing offices. I especially like Susan for Judge. Below is a quote about government as a weapon of the rich. I no longer feel that I need to prove this approach to be true. To the contrary, with all the evidence at hand, I think it is up to those who believe this is not true to prove it. And, if this broad analysis of capitalist government is true, then surely it is true of capital's schools, not OUR schools, but capital's, THEIRS. The state (government) is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another__no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891 German socialist & economist (1820 _ 1895) best r At 04:33 PM 6/5/2006 -0700, you wrote: 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.
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