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JFK is dead. Illinois Democrats are killing public education, active and retired teacher pensions, and more. | Reclaim Reform

JFK is dead. Illinois Democrats are killing public education, active and retired teacher pensions, and more. | Reclaim Reform:

JFK is dead. Illinois Democrats are killing public education, active and retired teacher pensions, and more.

JFK is dead. Illinois Democrats are killing public education, active and retired teacher pensions, and more.
I wept when John F. Kennedy was killed.
This is NOT an homage to a sainted icon. It is a comparison of what the general public and the Democratic Party supported as education then versus what the party actually does today.
President Kennedy devoted much of his public life to the service of public education – respect for children, parents, teachers and public schools. Political opposition to his efforts and even his own all too human flaws did not stop him in his pursuit of true public education. He did the right things to support quality education for all. You could probably make a list of your own supporting this with what you experienced, witnessed or studied about during his time as President.
JFK and his childrenJohn F. Kennedy said:
*A child miseducated is a child lost.
*Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
*For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.
Today, I weep for children, parents and the active & retired teachers who are being neglected and abused by Democrats and Republicans at a state and national level.
644217_469586819776408_1231327938_n2013 – The bluest of blue states with a super-majority of Democrats is killing public education by closing public schools while funding for-profit charters with tax money, hurting active and retired teachers by robbing them of their pensions, inflicting state mandated high stakes testing that abuses children with its uselessness and daily pressures, and cuts education fund

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