Our country must provide quality education free to all from pre-school through Ph.D., from technical schools to life-long learning. Some U.S. states did this in the 1960s and we could do it again by taxing the corporations.
- We can provide quality education for all by taxing the corporations and the very wealthy.
- The rich in our country can send their children to private elementary and secondary schools where the class size is 10 to 15 students, such small class size and personal attention should be the goal of public education.
- Good schools provide courses in music, art, foreign languages, and physical education, and we must return to that model of a complete and well-rounded public education system.
- Teaching is exhausting work and we need to shorten teachers’ hours and increase their pay. One should not have to work for 30 years to reach a decent standard of living.
- The Public School system can provide alternative models, but vouchers and charter schools drain off the resources of public education without providing either better education or education for all.
- Our higher education system has become extremely class-based, with working class students are often limited to the community colleges and the middle class to state universities, while the very wealthy have access to private universities. We must create a system where all have access to quality education at all levels.
