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7. Give Voice to Moral Outrage
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” There is no
shortage of issues on which to take a stand. Choose one and start making your voice heard.
8. Pitch in and Do Your Part to Make the World a Better Place
Don’t rely on someone else to do the heavy lifting for you. Don’t wait around for someone else to fix what ails you, your community
or nation. As Gandhi urged: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
9. Say No to War
Addressing the graduates at Binghampton Central High School in 1968, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling declared:
Too many wars are fought almost as if by rote. Too many wars are fought out of sloganry, out of battle hymns, out of aged,
musty appeals to patriotism that went out with knighthood and moats... do not accept the shedding of blood as a natural function
or a prescribed way of history—even if history points this up by its repetition... find another means that does not come
with the killing of your fellow-man.
10. Prepare Yourselves for What Lies Ahead
The demons of our age—some of whom disguise themselves as politicians—delight in fomenting violence, sowing distrust and
prejudice, and persuading the public to support tyranny disguised as patriotism. Overcoming the evils of our age will require
more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth, and toughness. As Serling concluded in his
remarks to the graduating class of 1968:
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Toughness is the singular quality most required of you... we have left you a world far more botched than the one that was
left to us... Part of your challenge is to seek out truth, to come up with a point of view not dictated to you by anyone, be he a
congressman, even a minister... Are you tough enough to take the divisiveness of this land of ours, the fact that everything is
polarized, black and white, this or that, absolutely right or absolutely wrong. This is one of the challenges. Be prepared to seek
out the middle ground ... If you must swing left or you must swing right—respect the other side. Honor the motives that come
from the other side. Argue, debate, rebut—but don’t close those wondrous minds of yours to opposition. In their eyes, you’re
the opposition. And ultimately ... ultimately—you end divisiveness by compromise. And so long as men walk and breathe—there
must be compromise...
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the only way we’ll ever achieve change in this
country is for the American people to finally say “enough is enough” and fight for the things that truly matter.
It doesn’t matter how old you are or what your political ideology is. If you have something to say, speak up. Get active, and if
need be, pick up a picket sign and get in the streets. And when civil liberties are violated, don’t remain silent about it.
Wake up, stand up, and make your activism count for something more than politics.
Source: The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
https://fee.org/
By Joe Carter
Friday, May 24, 2019
Earlier this week the US Census Bureau released a report that reveals how much US school districts spend per-pupil. Here are
seven figures from the report you should know:
1. The amount spent per-pupil for public elementary and secondary education (pre-kindergarten through 12th grade) for all
50 states and the District of Columbia increased by 3.7 percent to $12,201 per pupil during the 2017 fiscal year, compared
to $11,763 per-pupil in 2016, according to new tables released today by the US Census Bureau.
2. The top five school systems with the largest enrollment were New York City (984,462), Los Angeles (633, 621), Chicago
(378,199), Miami-Dade County, FL (357,249), and Clark County, NV (326,953).
3. Of the 100 largest school systems based on enrollment, the five school systems with the highest spending per pupil in
2017 were New York City School District in New York ($25,199), Boston City Schools in Massachusetts ($22,292), Baltimore
City Schools in Maryland ($16,184), Montgomery County School District in Maryland ($16,109), and Howard County School
District in Maryland ($15,921)
4. Maryland had four of the top 10 school systems school districts with the highest spending per pupil.
5. The public school systems that received the highest percentage of their revenues from the federal government were
New Mexico (14.4 percent), Mississippi (14.1 percent), Alaska (14.0 percent), Arizona (13.7 percent), and South Dakota (12.8
percent).
6. The public school systems that received the lowest percentage of their revenues from the federal government were New
Jersey (4.1 percent), Massachusetts (4.3 percent), Connecticut (4.3 percent), Minnesota (5.2 percent) and New York (5.3
percent).
7. In 2017, public elementary and secondary education revenue, from all sources, amounted to $694.1 billion, up 3.4 percent
from $671.2 billion in 2016.
Note: These statistics come from the 2017 Annual Survey of School System Finances. You can find more information about individual
school districts at that link.
Source: The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
https://fee.org/
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