re: #162 HappyWarrior

It’s probably your usual get rid of the Department of Education nonsense that has been rampant on the right since the Reagan years. Honestly, I think something of a national curriculum is a good thing given that our kids try to enroll in the same universities nationwide. Granted some subtle differences are good like I have no problem with a state and region emphasizing their history or literature but things like mathematics and science should be pretty much uniform.

I once tried to find the basic common ground with a bunch of wingers over education. I started with what I thought should be uncontroversial, especially since these clowns talk about ‘equal opportunity, not equal outcome.’ I said that I thought that the quality of a child’s public school education should not be a function where that child lives.

That seems pretty straightforward to me, and very much ‘equal opportunity’. You shouldn’t have to live where they have ‘good schools’ to get good schooling.

They couldn’t even agree to THAT!