The California dream is dead. Long live the California dream.
My besty here in Argentina just sent me this article, thinking I’d find it interesting, and she’s right. Although I am a product of private education and parents who found a way to afford it, I am a Californian through-and-through, therefore a believer that one can achieve whatever she sets her heart to. Reading about the education budget cuts makes me tsk-tsk over the state of my home state (not to mention the whole Prop 8 fiasco), for I too believe that education is the key to getting what you want. (In fact, I feel I am living the dream right now in large part to the skills and knowledge my education provided me.) Although Argentina has a great, free public education system in place, the US… we have so much access to information and education! I do not know how to begin to encourage those who have access and aren’t taking advantage of it to do so, nor how to provide access to all the children and adults in need, nor how to really address this gap between have and have-nots. But by god, I hope we figure it out — as a nation! The phrase that comes to mind is “with great power comes great responsibility.” Long live the California dream indeed.
