"indoctrinating, not educating."

Which one was it when I had to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance every day?

Public money shouldn't go to private schools.

Just like public money shouldn't go to build private sports stadiums.

"normalizing school privatization."

This is a deliberate policy to destroy the education system that poor people rely on.

Private schools can discriminate on who the accept. Public schools cannot discriminate. They are required to take everyone.

This is nothing more than back door segregation.

This is nothing more than the return of Separate But Equal.

Republicans will never, ever address the segregation and discrimination issue.

"Last time I checked, our tax dollars went to EDUCATION for the explicit purpose of teaching children how to read, write, use math, understand science etc.."

That doesn't let parents off the hook.

Why have a kid, if you're not going to raise it?
This is an actual question. Not rhetorical.
And you have more kids than answers.

The thing is, this has become a popular policy for a reason.
#9 | Posted by BellRinger

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Same can be said for Jim Crow.
And for the same reasons.

"Some of us were responsible enough to do right by our kids."

Uh huh.

So you asked "If you're saying it's not the school's responsibility to do this"

But now you're saying it's the parent's responsibility after all.

I hope your kids did better than you in school. Though that probably sets the bar pretty low.

"I didn't send my kids to failing schools."

Did you send your kids to public schools?

"I was involved with their educations, but yes the school provided the primary foundation for their education."

That's precisely what Republicans are opposed to, in public schools.
The school, not the parents, sets the agenda.
You're okay with that?
Or did you set the agenda, by which private schools you sent your kids to?

because you know what schools are failing, where they're located and who runs those cities.
#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Cities don't run schools.
School districts run schools.
And you left out an important part.
The part about how much money the teachers get paid in those schools.

When schools are supported by the local tax base, you'd have to be dumb to think areas with poor people are going to have good schools.

School Choice doesn't mean the parents get to choose.

School Choice means the schools get to choose the rich kids and reject the poor kids.

That's why Republicans are in love with it.

It reinforces their privilege.

I always read the only reason why the Democratic party opposes school choice and vouchers is because they only care about the teachers union.
#24 | Posted by eberly

Did you complete the thought, and realize the only reason Republicans favor school choice is union busting?
I bet you think Republicans have more idealist goals than that!
But maybe you can surprise us by saying they don't.

"Parental buy in to a private education."

So what about parents who send their kids to boarding school, military academies kind of thing?

These are some of the best schools around, and the parents live a thousand miles away.

So, uh, if you're rich, you can outsource that.

And if you're poor, your time is at a premium and you're resource limited when it comes to spending that time helping your kids with your homework. I mean, assuming you even tried, which a lot of poor people obviously dont.

Have you seen how abysmally stupid some Christian Homeschooled kids are? They'd learn more in the worst public schools. But they'd also learn diversity, and that terrifies White Nativist Christians.