Sometimes it is hard to fathom what is going on in the minds of policy-makers these days. The social safety net seems to be chopped off more and more each day, and opportunities for improving one's standing in society are getting curtailed to a greater degree as time goes on, except for the super wealthy.
One of the latest moves by Austin Independent School District appears to be an initiative to close as many as 15 schools due to budgetary pressure. If we as a society can't educate our children, it will not be long before we will degenerate into a failed state. Pure and simple.
So what is the goal here? The goal is apparently to achieve a generation of illiterates, a panoply of unemployed, and a government that wants everybody to deal with any attendant misery that falls their way as a result of this brilliant plan on their own. Meanwhile, as an amusing sidebar, corporations mine people for the change in their pockets, health care becomes unaffordable, and defense spending spins out of control. And they seem to be succeeding magnificently
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