I am a retired high school teacher. I find this cartoon extremely interesting. I have been making the comparison between defund the police and schools myself. I believe one of the ways public education has gone wrong in recent years is that schools now try to do too much. They have strayed from their true purpose; educating the young in history, reading, math, and science. They have added social workers, psychologists and countless other people and functions. They are trying to do too much and not doing anything all that well anymore. Maybe those things (and many others) would be done better by other public institutions. This would be a long discussion that is too big for here. But, I took my thoughts about what has gone wrong in public schools and compared it to the police. That is exactly what defund police means. Police departments are asked to do too much. Things they weren’t designed to do. Scale their responsibilities back a bit and take some money from their budget to accomplish it.
I am a retired high school teacher. I find this cartoon extremely interesting. I have been making the comparison between defund the police and schools myself. I believe one of the ways public education has gone wrong in recent years is that schools now try to do too much. They have strayed from their true purpose; educating the young in history, reading, math, and science. They have added social workers, psychologists and countless other people and functions. They are trying to do too much and not doing anything all that well anymore. Maybe those things (and many others) would be done better by other public institutions. This would be a long discussion that is too big for here. But, I took my thoughts about what has gone wrong in public schools and compared it to the police. That is exactly what defund police means. Police departments are asked to do too much. Things they weren’t designed to do. Scale their responsibilities back a bit and take some money from their budget to accomplish it.