‘Constitutionally adequate’ education isn’t good enough

[TexasTowelie]

The chant of "We're No. 1, we're No. 1" will soon be reverberating with the opening of football season.

For fans, the yell means our school is the greatest, our school is tops in everything, our school is first class in all things, including sports.

No one goes around shouting, "We're constitutionally adequate, we're constitutionally adequate."

"Constitutionally adequate" is the phrase that the state's lawyers clung to this week as they began their defense of the funding system for Texas' public schools.

Read more: http://www.caller.com/columnists/nick-jimenez/constitutionally-adequate-education-isnt-good-enough-0fec5f1b-bdf4-37d8-e053-0100007fdab2-324403351.html

[TexasProgresive]

1. What's sad is that will be accepted by some people.

[n2doc]

2. So long as the folks who are allowed to vote have their good schools

They won't care about the others.

Some schools can afford to do this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/Katy-texas-58-million-high-school-football-stadium/382437/

http://espn.go.com/dallas/story/_/id/10528972/cracks-force-closure-60m-stadium-allen-texas

[Gothmog]

3. Perry and Abbott have gutted our schools