The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.
One of the reasons we got public education in the first was that the factory owners needed workers who could learn how to operate complex machines and do math. Easier to get the public to pay than teach them on the owner’s dime.
Yeah, but then they moved all the factories to other countries. The public is now just a burden to them for wanting corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.
They needed managers and accountants, so they begrudgingly agreed to educate everyone’s kids as long as the public pay for it and they get to ultimately decide the curriculum. There’s always been push back on that second point, especially by teachers. In the modern era, STEM* is most useful to industry so everything else gets de-funded to the point of meaninglessness.
*STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
One of the reasons we got public education in the first was that the factory owners needed workers who could learn how to operate complex machines and do math. Easier to get the public to pay than teach them on the owner’s dime.
Yeah, but then they moved all the factories to other countries. The public is now just a burden to them for wanting corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.
Once the public have no power and no influence there’s no need to listen to them or consider their needs.
The US still has an enormous manufacturing footprint. Yes, a lot was moved overseas, but hardly all of them.
They needed managers and accountants, so they begrudgingly agreed to educate everyone’s kids as long as the public pay for it and they get to ultimately decide the curriculum. There’s always been push back on that second point, especially by teachers. In the modern era, STEM* is most useful to industry so everything else gets de-funded to the point of meaninglessness.
*STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
There are plenty of ‘STEM’ jobs that are being outsourced.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to imply there isn’t. Just adding to your comment.
This country is like a Jenga. They are taking more and more from the bottom to try and put more at the top.