We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.
It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.