The concerted and perverted war effort by elected officials declared on America's public school education system and the teachers who have dedicated their lives to this noble profession must end...now!
From this day forward, we will not accept the destructive behavior from elected officials of cutting funding from America's education system while increasing funding for the penal system. We must take this extremely important message peacefully to the streets, the social network, and most importantly--at the ballot box.
Today, we are drawing a line in the sand between intelligence and civility vs. imbecility and incivility.
Every politician--from Tea/Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Libertarians, members of the Green Party and Independents that are participating in this morbid behavior of eliminating a fundamental requirement that every youth and adolescent receives a quality education must never again sit at the table of the Republic's government.
As a people from all walks of life and who give a damn about the current shameless state our public schools are entombed in, we must begin building resources to combat elected officials from the local, state, and national levels of government that pillage and plunder education budgets. When would-be-candidates or incumbents seek or are up for reelection, it is our "responsibility" to campaign and vote, vote, vote to ensure that their chances of victory are impossibility. I would believe that "every" citizen in the Republic would be unanimous is this effort. Alas, I know they're not. In 2011, some Americans would like to hearken back to the "good ole' days" when a quality education was not a guarantee for every child.
With these current academic budget slaughters like the one recently perpetrated in Pennsylvania by Governor Corbett, America is eerily moving back more than 150 years to a time when only children of wealth and privilege were taught how to read and write and how the masses of impoverished youth and adolescents were introduced to permanent poverty, a life of crime, and imprisonment.
Conversely, a nation of illiterate youth and adolescents will impede a society from progressing, thereby creating a lasting culture built upon chaos, strife, and perpetual incarceration.
"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic."
Anthony P. Johnson
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