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November 14, 2005
"40 Days of Listening"~Education, Education, Education
If there is one forum you should attend, it is this one, a "listening forum" on education. Hamilton County Schools are in "urgent care" condition. I urge you to attend this forum, which will now start at 5:30 p.m. (instead of 4:30) and end at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Eidson's Restaurant in East Ridge.
The most important concern for our county is education. County leaders have fumed and fussed over school funding for the past half decade. We are now dead last in spending per child in education (see Per Child Education Spending) and in per capita spending on education. Not good. It does not help that although Tennessee is one of the lowest revenue-raising states in the country, most of the revenue hurts the poorest among us (see Tennessee Revenue).
It is very simple. Education is our engine of opportunity, providing economic mobility and social empowerment. If you want a young person to drive safely into the future, give him or her a great education, not an expensive car. The car will come. Or as Mark Twain put it: "There's nothing education can't do, nothing above its reach. It will destroy bad principles and recreate good ones."
| By wjbailes | 04:34 AM
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