The US public school system is a reflection of mass segregation based on income. As the wage gap widens so does the quality of education.
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Replying to @kelseyhightower
do you fix the schools by reducing the income gap or reduce the income gap by fixing the schools?
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Replying to @ddgenome @kelseyhightower
Fix schools by funding all schools equally, banning private schools and private contributions to schools.
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Replying to @RichFelker @kelseyhightower
seems unlikely to withstand a constitutional challenge
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Replying to @ddgenome @kelseyhightower
I didn't say it would be politically easy.
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Replying to @RichFelker @kelseyhightower
there's politically difficult and then there's amending the Constitution to limit the 1st amendment
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Replying to @RichFelker @kelseyhightower
my thinking is that currently $=speech, many private schools religious. Would need to limit 1st to limit/tax
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Replying to @ddgenome @kelseyhightower
You can allow institutions that provide religious education w/o letting them serve in lieu of public secular edu.
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Replying to @RichFelker
but you said "ban private schools", which would have 1st amendment, among other, implications
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It's what I'd advocate for if we were designing a completely new social contract without legacy constraints, not what works in US.
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