I am pretty new to dailykos but trying to do what little I can to help bring attention to the assaults on public education (via the massive misuse and overuse of standardized tests). My apologies if this has already been posted to dailykos before. Calling teacherken!
It seems to me that none of the incredibly important issues discussed at dailykos, like freedom and democracy, our civil rights, the common good....none of them can be recovered, sustained, and strengthened if we do not educate our children to be able to think for themselves, to be active participants in their democracy, to be able to discern the truth from propaganda, and so on.