• @CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
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    11 year ago

    If voting patterns are any indication, people without children already tend to vote against education and childcare funding. Thank you for being an exception. As someone who works around kids and has many friends who do, I can’t emphasize enough the difference that just a little more funding can make to improving the lives of children - and by extension society at large.

    People who are disconnected from it don’t see the direct connection between, say, teacher morale and support, and how well students do. If the teachers in a system are always stressed because they’re underpaid, always scrounging for supplies, and in charge of too large a classroom, everyone in the class suffers. And when kids with emotional disorders spike because there is no support for parents, they soak up all the attention, and students who might be fine start floundering because the staff is busy trying to keep a leash on the poor kid who is acting out because his parents are fucked up.

    • @darkmugglet@lemm.ee
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      01 year ago

      Plenty of people who have had children and raised them are against paying school taxes after their kids leave school. The number of times I have heard Grand parents talk about unfair it is that they have to pay taxes on schools is insane. Source: lived in a community where the average age was 72.