As a retired teacher, I have been following
education quite closely.
Florida, where I live, chose to go to vouchers and break the separation of church and state funding issues.
Many of the private schools here are religious.
Businesses can direct donations to their school of choice to bypass their tax liability.
As an educator, I studied the success of Finland in turning around their structure.
Finland raises good people, but they are raised often by down to earth citizenry. When their young wanted to test life off the farm, the would go to St.Petersburg or some other bustling city. They were maligned as rubes.
The Finns did not take too kindly to the insults and decided to evaluate their society.
They took charge of their education.
They evaluated their students as to their strong suits and set them up for success.
They took on the most important phase of education, the early years, and accepted they couldn't rescue those who just floated through the system. This started in the 90's.
Today, Finland is one of the most finely tuned educated society.
I was educated by the nuns in a very catholic city in the Northeast. I recognized the indoctrination early on.
It is plainly evident, our foes have grabbed the importance of getting children when they are young.
Children live what they learned and post pubescently, rarely change.
The real battle for our soul, as a country, is how our children will be exposed to the issues that matter.
I am not going to write a book. They are already out their.
Some of us know it is too late to rescue some of our own kids from the quagmire of social media, but some of us can have our private conversations with our grandchildren.
We must get them while they are young.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has just proposed half her budget be spent on school vouchers.
We cannot afford to lose this battle.
It is not high on most lists, but it is with the religious right.
Gen Z is onto the environment.
But they are subject to an entirely different shared knowledge experience.
We are not going to extract from the cult.
The tides are coming. We need to prepare our grandchildren.
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