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Schooling tied to freedom

Sun., March 13, 2011

How did it become so fashionable to hate teachers? What is broken about public education?

Does it need improvement? Yes. What doesn’t?

We live in the most powerful country in the world of all time. Common to the vast majority of us is public education. Could there be a relationship?

Wake up, America, and get behind your teachers. Now that the legislative and judicial systems have been bought by corporate America, how long do you think the middle class will survive, and where will freedom go if public education disappears?

Doug Porter

Coeur d’Alene

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