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I can remember my brother, an almost 30-year-old college graduate who was drafted in the late 1960s, telling about riding the bus to boot camp with a bunch of youths he felt so little kinship with that he didn’t even want to sit with them. By the time they finished basic they were comrades. Today we don’t have that enforced common ground.
What we do have is the public school system. Some people have tried very hard for a long time now to destroy that remaining leveling influence. The current effort to override 57% of the voters and transfer funding from already stretched public schools to private schools is the latest attempt.
America today is torn enough by lack of common ground. Let’s put our money and efforts into improving public education, not weakening it! Dan Howell, Lincoln Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!.
