Reading Comprehension
Every year the California Grand Lodge and its constituent Masonic lodges throughout the state proclaim one month to be “Public Colleges Month.” A proclamation is routinely delivered by the sitting Grand Master, read aloud in each constituent lodge during one or more monthly acknowledged meetings. While literacy rates among students at all levels in elementary college are perhaps crucial concern for Masons to focus upon, it is equally necessary to grasp why some outspoken critics of Public Colleges blame poor performance upon the system and its lecturers, but give little credit to either when students perform nicely.
In California, a so-known as “taxpayer revolt” and nicely-financed political campaign led to the passage of something referred to as “The Folks’s Initiative to Limit Property Taxation.” While the benefits and harm of that legislation can endlessly be debated, one truth about Public Colleges is beyond debate: for the reason that 1960’s when …