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by anon291 20 days ago
Shifting the goalposts. For most of american history a high school education was considered sufficient to be part of a functioning democracy. If a music education (or whatever) is required to be part of democracy, then everyone should have it.
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Education isn't a binary, so I'm not sure why we should arbitrarily draw the line at highschool as we become richer as a nation
Because high school is what we fully fund as a nation