The tragic events happening in some parts of the nation’s schools to our most vulnerable and precious population, America’s children, inspired me to speak out with concern, anger and emphatic disgust.
Some children are not safe in the classroom while many others are denied an appropriate basic education for the lack of adequate funding.
President Jefferson insisted that a great democracy requires a free public education system. He was a state’s rights believer and so, in writing the 10th Amendment to the Constitution (1791), he left the power of regulating and funding education to the separate states.
Currently, the USA annually dumps billions of dollars to numerous countries under the guise of protecting our national interest.
