I love the Kaiserreich edited version of that song. I have no idea if it’s original or something spliced together by the Kaisrreich team.
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I did get that chance a few years back, at the London anarchist bookfair after a talk about Rojava with Carne Ross, Lisa McKenzie and someone from the London Kurdish community (I can’t remember her name or the group she represented, sorry). I wish I could have talked to him some more.
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Definitely worth it. Enjoy, but get mad too.
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This this this this this this this times infinity omg.
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lol, where in the USA is public primary and high school actually free?
Public schools still have enrollment and lab fees and admin fees and all kinds of incidental ticky-tac.
Good argument, bad premise.
Yeah well, college has those AND tuition.
The meme doesn’t say just “free,” it says “tuition free.”
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Huh. When I was teaching, we couldn’t ask for any donations AND we couldn’t require students to bring their own pencils and paper. We were told that we could request a limited amount of supplies, but most teachers paid out of their own pockets for supplies (I know I did).
Or are you talking about colleges?
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Each year my daughter was in public school, in addition to paying like $75 per year as a textbook fee, we were given a list of classroom supplies to buy for the whole class, too, tissues, markers, notecards, etc. This was 2001-2013
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I think you’re back east, right? The district where I taught, which is still a mix of economically disadvantaged and middle class, told us that we’d could be sued for not providing equal access to education.
There may be other CA school districts who try to do this, but this district was absolutely fearful of lawsuits. (They were self-insured.) They often gave in to parent’s crazy demands, but they also took care with disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.
Yeah, giving the parents a list of supplies isn’t allowed. We could suggest that their students might want to buy notecards, but they aren’t required to have them.
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I never saw what happened if the parents simply refused to pay. I imagine, though, nothing at all. I think it was more a bluff, sending the list and bill for book fees in hopes enough of us payed.
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My guess is that the district where I worked had been threatened with a suit over the equal access/equal treatment, but it was probably by the parents of a student of privilege. However, the important aspect is that disadvantaged families shouldn’t cough up money they scarcely have.
One high school in particular is full of middle class white kids whose parents look for loopholes whenever their kids get in trouble. (One HS senior punched a glass door on the last day of school and the parents sued the district claiming their child wasn’t supervised well enough and that the HS hadn’t posted a sign about the dangers of punching a glass door. I wish I was joking.)
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Oh good Goddess. Do you know if the suit was successful?
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I don’t know. I’m guessing the district ended up paying his medical bills. What I do know is that the senior early release and graduate march through the halls is no longer a thing.
(Congratulations! Your kid is graduating, becoming an adult and this is what you’ve taught them about responsibility. )
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