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We don't provide access to everyone. If you are a kid who doesn't get fed at home, and you don't get a school meal until lunch, do you have the same access? If
by socialismisok 4y ago
We don't provide access to everyone. If you are a kid who doesn't get fed at home, and you don't get a school meal until lunch, do you have the same access?
If your school can't afford state of the art computers or technology, do you have the same access?
If your school has class sizes of 35 and mine has class sizes of 18, do we both have the same access?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoPublic schools have been giving free breakfast to poor kids for as long as most people in this thread can remember; it's been a federally funded program since the early 70s.
- sokoloff 4y agoThe financial solution chosen to drive equality is likely to be "you must fire half of your teachers, resulting in class sizes of 36 for you, which we think is close enough to 35". Does that actually help anyone?
- socialismisok 4y agoOr "we tax wealthy people more", which sounds fine to me. (As a wealthy person.)
- sokoloff 4y agoThat’s somewhat straightforward for states (and property tax is a weak proxy form of it), but wealth taxation at the federal level is debatably but likely unconstitutional. You could tax high-incomes more federally in a straightforward way, which is almost surely therefore easier to implement.
- floren 4y ago> If you are a kid who doesn't get fed at home, and you don't get a school meal until lunch, do you have the same access? My rural school district provided free breakfast for precisely this reason... is it not a common thing?