It appears that what you espouse is society paying for something that benefits society - instead of the current system where everyone loses except the private lenders, who gain at the expense of nearly everyone else, especially students.
For over 100 years, American society has been paying for K-12 education - and America prospered mightily as a result. Since K-12 is no longer sufficient for the needs of today or the future, it is clear that an expansion of the current model is needed.
I currently live & teach in Egypt, where the same high-quality, K-12 education is not available to the masses. It is very easy to see the result - the vast majority of citizens here live on less than $2 per day - largely due to a lack of an adequate education. If that is one’s vision for America, by all means one should continue to support the for-profit model of education. After all, several entrepreneurs here in Cairo are doing quite well with that model.
But if one ascribes to the egalitarian, equal-opportunity-for-all vision that America was founded on, then one must also support two of the most fundamental components of the pursuit of happiness: health care and education. Unless we have equal access to both, we are headed in the wrong direction.
There are two major reasons I am voting for Obama:
1. As a woman, I have the right to make my own health care decisions. Congress has no place making those decisions FOR me.
2. I am a student who doesn’t have the option of asking parents for money. My father has been on SSDI for most of my life, and my mother (who was also on SSDI) passed away in October. As it stands, my financial aid and minimum wage job barely cover tuition as a commuter- never mind living anywhere but home. Without federal aid, higher education would never be within my grasp.
I fear what would happen to me, and the many others in my shoes, if we lose this election.
At a meeting held at CERN this morning, scientists presented the latest results from the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. After 30 years of research and $9 billion of investment, they’ve changed the face of physics forever: they’ve found the Higgs boson.
(UPDATE: They haven’t found the Higgs boson yet. What they’ve found, is a boson which is like the Higgs. They still need to prove it if is really the Higgs boson.)
Thirty years before Hitler came to power in Germany, and about forty years before Raphael Lemkin authored the word genocide, there had already been one at the hands of Germany. This genocide did not take place in Europe. This ‘forgotten’ genocide took place in Southwest Africa, or what is today, Nambia.
In the early 1900s, Germany invaded Namibia. This documentary from the BBC outlines the events that lead up to the deaths of at least three-quarters of the population of Herero people, and at least half of the population of Nama people.
This systematic form of ethnic-cleansing was done to create Lebensraum for German settlers, where space was running out in the over-crowded cities of urban Germany, and create a satellite state for Germany interests and prosperity.
“The dark racial theories that helped inspire the Nazis run much deeper into German and European history than most people want to acknowledge”
“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”
“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—
“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”
“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”
“OUT.”
Jane Elliot is a champ.
omg this gif. YES!
I will never grow tired of this experiments.
“When am I going to quit? When racists quits. Do I have a job for a lifetime? I’m afraid so.” Jane Elliot
Left: Healthy children are tomorrow’s future football stars. Top right: During a break from classes at Welamlambo Primary School in Johannesburg, South Africa, students line up at the tap for a drink of water. Bottom right: Students celebrating hygiene improvements after repairs were made to the schools broken sinks and taps in Enkangala Primary School in South Africa.
“You don’t come back in here until you’ve apologized to every person in this room, Because you just exercised a freedom that none of these people of color have. When these people of color get tired of racism, they can’t just walk out, because there’s no place in this country where they aren’t going to be exposed to racism. They can’t even stay in their own homes and not be exposed to racism if they turn on their television. But you, as a white female, when you get tired of being judged and treated unfairly on the basis of your eye color, you can walk out that door, and you know it won’t happen out there. You exercised a freedom they don’t have. If you’re going to be in here you’re going to apologize to every person of color in this room. And do it now.”
“I’m sorry there’s racism in this country—
“BULLSHIT! No, you’re not going to say ‘I’m sorry there’s racism.’ You’re going to apologize for what YOU just did.”
“I will not apologize because it’s not a matter of race always—”
“OUT.”
Jane Elliot is a champ.
omg this gif. YES!
I will never grow tired of this experiments.
“When am I going to quit? When racists quits. Do I have a job for a lifetime? I’m afraid so.” Jane Elliot
