This morning‘s discussion with the men of Tuesday revolved
about three integrated issues to my mind: one: there is a long
-standing and widening gap between minorities, specifically
African-American and the college educated white.
all students, especially recent grads from college have immense
debts that are a function of the cost of education, and our ways
of paying for it
3: the cost of education vastly exceeded inflation for decades.
....for instance within our group of 60 to 70-year-olds the cost
varied, even including medical school, between $1500 a year,
and $2500 for year, and that same education today cost between
25,000 and $70,000 per year
Four: any effort to narrow the gap between the haves
and the have hearts has to include education for all, and
affordable education for all. In the city of Chicago the last
mayor, Emmanuel, made community college free for any high
school grad from the city of Chicago schools which certainly
addresses part of the issue, money, but of course there are
multiple other barriers, not the least of which is single-parent
household and the burdens that that imposes on families, issues
that have been there forever, but much more serious now in the
competition for meaningful livelihood.
Within that context, Ed suggested that College debt be forgiven,
or realigned, immediately, not simply for the good of those individuals
, but for the good of society, which is built around cConsumption by
the next generation of young families.
Five: as individuals, of course there are things we could do,
there are early sociologist studies showed that having one
mentor available to a child in the formative years can make
an enormous difference in outcomes, and there is the study
out of Flint Michigan which demonstrated an enormous difference
from a study done more than 60 years ago, preschool education
: the study randomized 10,000 children among 40,000 eligibles
to have preschool two hours a day I believe for 6 to 8 weeks I believe,
but it may have been a semester. Looking at the outcomes forty years
later, The difference in income, incarceration, success in marriage,
were almost double for those who received receive that limited gif
t versus the control group, the other 30,000.
But this is a collective obligation, and not an option except
in the pace of resolving this flaw......
Six: that and many other studies demonstrate that every dollar
spent on working towards completed education is worth in an
enormous amount, both financially, and sociologically.......and
the ethic is based on what society owes its members.........and
in the states that argument
between libertarians who feel that gov only exists to protect against
outside and to protect individuals rights, and those who recognize
that society has an obligation. To its members often gets lost in the
weeds, as they like to say in policy discussions.
The immediate messages obvious: whether you’re conservative or
liberal, it is essential to get Trump out of office school is either of those,
and to start mending the social fabric that is so fucked up in this country a present
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