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Grace Ross on Education |
ROSS: We have a generation now that might not even make it through high school. About a quarter of kids are dropping out, if you go to African American kids you get close to 50%, Latino kids we're over 50%. The test is a big part of the problem. Obviously we need the funding for the schools. But the reality is that test is a key piece, it's connected with the timing of when the kids started dropping out and we've got to pay attention.
ROSS: The best measure of how a school is going to do is how much money that community has and that tells us what's really going on is there is an economic drain going on in our schools. No teacher can teach well in a school that has 35 kids or more. So what we need to do is put money back into our schools, we have a Constitutional commitment to education in this state and I think we actually need to follow our Constitution.
A: NO, I oppose the imposition of one religious doctrine on all people (a guarantee in our constitution which many activists fought so hard for in Massachusetts, resulting in its inclusion in our national constitution). The "under God" was actually added as a litmus test during the anti-communist, McCarthy era.