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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah not if you're right wing. Then it's one of the first places to start cutting budgets, together with Healthcare and elderly care. You want people to have less education, makes them easier to manipulate and keep under control.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know. I'm in Europe, it doesn't work like the US in my country. I have yet to find a party that doesn't use budgets to further their own cause. It applies to both left and right wing here. Supporting higher budgets doesn't need to mean the curriculum has to be in align with party beliefs. Education needs to be affordable and be good to teachers salary wise. No "higher wages only if". You'll never achieve an agreement in a democracy if there are conditions. All parties should agree to increment spending on education. If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.

    The problem is that our right wing thinks that basic facts are 'left wing ideology' and we can't "make it work".

    Like, I grew up in a conservative state, with an education that stripped out everything they complained about, and we didn't even cover reproduction in high school biology because the right doesn't want sex-ed. Nevermind that kids were banging in the bathrooms, we couldn't learn about mitosis because it might lead to impure thoughts.

    What sort of compromise would you even suggest with that?

    Edit: I had a girl in my senior class that was pregnant with her third kid, and she literally didn't understand why she kept getting pregnant and actually thought god was sending her babies so she'd be a great mom.

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