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Education
Taking Action
 Women
are particularly responsible for education, because schooling is closely
tied to child care, health, transportation, and choice. All this,
in addition, to the use of tax dollars. Because people with money
have throughout our history been able to opt out of the public school
system, regulating and taxing for schools is often a class question
- depending on real estate values and where people live.
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Political debate often focuses on just one smaller issue among all the interconnected ones. In order to command attention, we women need to recognize the web of issues and base our actions on our know-how. With these steps, our actions can make a major difference:
1. Understand the current system and the way in which the subissues are used to both control what children know and direct tax dollars to particular groups and locations. To keep up, the details are described right here.
2. Understand where your representatives stand on both philosophy and the specifics of each of these issues, and who gives them money. To find those answers, click here.
3. Ask these questions of the representatives, candidates for office, and the political parties that want our money and our votes. How much do they know and how willing are they to give us the details about where they stand and why? Ask your representatives about any of these Life Issue
questions:
- To improve education for children, what specific actions do you think must be taken? When?
- If most of the children in any one school are failing the tests, what does that tell you? What should be done?
- Who should decide what children should know?
- Should standards for teachers be the same across the country? Why or why not?
4. Talk about your ideas with friends, family, and co-workers. You can use these questions to start exchanging ideas:
Who should decide what our children should know and when they should be taught it? How can we attract well-educated people into teaching?
Since teaching in this country is done in large groups, how can we be sure that children age 0-3 get the health care, language learning, and group behaviors required for success in our kindergartens?
5. When you know which party, which activist organizations and which individuals represent your views, join them or support their efforts by sending $5 or more. Click here for a list of our affiliates.
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