One of the key points of yesterday’s post was the importance of education in the feasible development of an area, a concept thoroughly underinvestigated in our city’s economic recovery plan. In The End Of Learning, GB references an article called Playing School In Katrina’s Wake:
One student, a senior at Douglass, jerked her head up at this line. What? she asked. Then she just shook her head, hung it down and muttered, It’s like we“re experiments.
Slashdot just announced that the RIAA has teamed up with the US House Education & Labor Committee to pass an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965 which amounts to nothing more than government-sanctioned daylight robbery of the American people using their children’s money – the use of federal funds to illegalize P2P piracy on college campuses (ht, D)
While Congress plays with American priorities, our literacy rate falls further, test scores reek, schools fall to ruin due to government negligence and our children know that they have been abandoned. America’s short-sightedness regarding education will be its ruin.
Ray’s current post, Children Of Men Of New Orleans, contains his haunting photos of Joseph A. Hardin Elementary in the Lower 9th Ward, untouched since the storm. And, I mean, UNTOUCHED.
This Good Friday, Jesus weeps, as do I.
