CAustin IV
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...seriously support productive public education reform?
Republicans sometimes support education privatization, but only as a vehicle for state-funded religious education, as opposed to having a genuine interest in quality education available to the public - as a result, they often deliberately engineer policy that harms public education, in the interest of making it so glaringly bad that the public just gets rid of it.
Democrats, of course, are in bed with the teachers' unions, which support teacher interests unequivocally, particularly when those interests conflict with the interests of students and parents - e.g. protecting job security for bad teachers. That is, Democratic education reform tends to favor teachers as a special interest, which becomes a problem when the interests of teachers do not coincide with the interests of quality education.
Given how many Americans depend on the quality of the public education system, and pay closer attention to education than other elements of politics, are both parties shooting themselves in the foot by using the pretense of education reform as a prop for other special interests, instead of genuinely making quality public education a part of their political ideology?
Republicans sometimes support education privatization, but only as a vehicle for state-funded religious education, as opposed to having a genuine interest in quality education available to the public - as a result, they often deliberately engineer policy that harms public education, in the interest of making it so glaringly bad that the public just gets rid of it.
Democrats, of course, are in bed with the teachers' unions, which support teacher interests unequivocally, particularly when those interests conflict with the interests of students and parents - e.g. protecting job security for bad teachers. That is, Democratic education reform tends to favor teachers as a special interest, which becomes a problem when the interests of teachers do not coincide with the interests of quality education.
Given how many Americans depend on the quality of the public education system, and pay closer attention to education than other elements of politics, are both parties shooting themselves in the foot by using the pretense of education reform as a prop for other special interests, instead of genuinely making quality public education a part of their political ideology?