Framing here’s a bit off. You shouldn’t have to go to school - sure… as a requirement… but the big thing that’s completely being missed (as we have been taught that college is for “fancy” jobs) is that in other decent countries… there is no cost to it.
Advanced educated populaces are seen by non - “authoritarian-run-shit-holes” as something that makes a country more economically competitive in an increasingly global job market.
Whether it’s being paid to learn on the job training with a welding apprenticeship subsidized by taxes, or being able to go to medical school via tax-subsidized funds that don’t create artificial barriers to entry for the poor for no other reason - it’s a good thing for advanced education (and pre-school and every other form of education) to be publicly funded.
It’s especially dismaying when you look at plans for states like Arizona to “stipend” for private education and rid them of public education.
The idea of giving a stipend for education isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually a great idea.
But compounded with the fact that historically private schools are more than happy to raise tuition and how historically certain demographics are cherry picked as more or less deserving of receiving funding, it’s clear that the policies they are aiming to lower homeschooling requirements, pump money into private religious schools, and lower education quality/specifically teach what they see is worth teaching.
But… those who do go to university and get a degrees will earn more in their lifetimes than those who don’t. Why should bus drivers have to subsidize the education of lawyers?
Framing here’s a bit off. You shouldn’t have to go to school - sure… as a requirement… but the big thing that’s completely being missed (as we have been taught that college is for “fancy” jobs) is that in other decent countries… there is no cost to it.
Advanced educated populaces are seen by non - “authoritarian-run-shit-holes” as something that makes a country more economically competitive in an increasingly global job market.
Whether it’s being paid to learn on the job training with a welding apprenticeship subsidized by taxes, or being able to go to medical school via tax-subsidized funds that don’t create artificial barriers to entry for the poor for no other reason - it’s a good thing for advanced education (and pre-school and every other form of education) to be publicly funded.
It’s especially dismaying when you look at plans for states like Arizona to “stipend” for private education and rid them of public education.
The idea of giving a stipend for education isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually a great idea.
But compounded with the fact that historically private schools are more than happy to raise tuition and how historically certain demographics are cherry picked as more or less deserving of receiving funding, it’s clear that the policies they are aiming to lower homeschooling requirements, pump money into private religious schools, and lower education quality/specifically teach what they see is worth teaching.
And the 10 states you’d expect to implement this are making moves to do so.
But… those who do go to university and get a degrees will earn more in their lifetimes than those who don’t. Why should bus drivers have to subsidize the education of lawyers?