WSPTA announced that funding is better but falls short of goals http://wsptagrassroots.blogspot.com/2015/03/mccleary-funding-better-but-still-falls.html I have to learn more about the McCleary case and the proposed changes to exemptions and taxes. This is the first time I heard about the McCleary case which seems to be a great win for the people but unfortunately is not getting enough funding. Of course I strongly support the fund for basic education K-12 and a win for education is a win for all which provides for the basis for our modern society.. In Hawaii teachers didn't show up, there were daily fights against each other, and homeschoolers were not supported. I am considering not continuing with Cascadia and to pursue ftacademy and working at various farming jobs. As for high school, I went to a moderately competitive one which let many students through the cracks. A lot of what I've learned is from working different jobs, using free educational medium on free software (wikipedia on trisquel). Preschool and Higher ed is also important too. I believe it was something like David vs Goliath reported on a story by Malcolm Gladwell that was arguing that a lower class size doesn't actually mean it would be a better school. Also it is stunning how much is spent on textbooks when there are free and open learning materials like FTAcademy.org or openstax. My school spent a lot of resources on preparing students to go to higher ed but not providing hardly any information on alternative pathways. And in higher ed, we discriminated for using free software, failing computer classes. I won't be studying cs at Cascadia, because I fought for free software, but some teachers would not give in. I am considering public protests if I meet more people and the consciousness is higher about free software because I WILL NOT go to a school that gets millions of dollars of Gates money to force microsoft on it's users. It would be better that students don't have any of this technology at all - we are turned into spies for the company and many don't even realize this. Another thing - almost every two weeks a veteran comes to tell people they will got 30k and get their school paid for by killing the evil "arabs" ("fighting for the country...right?"). I realize that society has these problems as well, and I don't know what the best thing to do is. I hope I can learn to be a better campaigner in the future and to learn from my mistakes. I hope the college can do the same. It does seem that Washington has a better educational system than Hawaii and I am learning more about it. The higher budget funding I'm sure will be better spent on education in general then some military or police policy. In one way maybe the schools can be reformed, but sometimes history shows that a revolution or building a new system may be better. Sorry if this was a rant or anything, and obviously mine was a personal story compared to the obvious effect education has to societies. But we have to be sure this is not mis-education.
