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3 revisions | Jannyp at Aug 21, 2020 12:44 PM | |
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11-11- read and write. We know that transportation facilities have | 11read and write. We know that transportation facilities have made migration easier and thus have cause education itself to take on features which make it national rather than local in character. That fact leads directly to the concept of federal financial support and subsequent control of educational procedure. If one forgets about the citizenship factor, one may say that the educational program needs very soon to become federal. If it should, however, then certainly it should be federally supervised and should be paid for from the federal treasury. I can see reason in saying [ ] is national business to see that every child,--white, black, or brown,--in this nation gets at least a sixth grade education, I mean by that that every child must learn to read and write and spell. That much is basic, for if a child moves from one state to another, then he can read what the second state has to say to him. If this factor is a national issue,--and it is,--why not be forthright and say we need to pay for this service directly from the national gvernment just as we pay for the United States Navy? Under such a regime we'd say to the people of a state, education of your children up to twelve years of age is the job of the United States government. These children, born in this state and in the United States, are citizens of the United States and for this reason the national government is going to see that the education of these children is cared for. The national government of the United State will under this regime decide what kind of teachers they shall have, what they shall be taught, when it shall be taught, and under what circumstances. The United States government is going to take over the education of all these children up to and through the sixth grade and so far as |