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The school is what gets picked, not the students.Funny how easy that is when you PICK the students..
The school is what gets picked, not the students.Funny how easy that is when you PICK the students..
Where's the money coming from? Are they just going to close down the public schools?[snip]Arizona moves "to kill public education" with new voucher law
Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP's new scheme: "Every red state" urged to followwww.salon.com
Last Friday, while the country reeled from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, Arizona made history of a different sort. Legislators in the Grand Canyon State passed a universal school voucher bill that, once signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, will become the most wide-reaching school privatization plan in the country.
In his January State of the State address, Ducey called on Arizona lawmakers to send him bills that would "expand school choice any way we can," and the Republican-dominated legislature obliged, delivering last Friday's bill, which will open a preexisting program for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) up to the entire state. In practice, the law will now give parents who opt out of public schools a debit card for roughly $7,000 per child that can be used to pay for private school tuition, but also for much more: for religious schools, homeschool expenses, tutoring, online classes, education supplies and fees associated with "microschools"
"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."
From Rhode Island, anti-CRT activist Nicole Solas, a fellow with the right-wing Independent Women's Forum, tweeted, "You know what happens when you abuse people? People leave you. Bye, public school."
"The Republican universal voucher system is designed to kill public education," tweeted former Arizona House Rep. Diego Rodriguez. "OUR nation's greatness is built on free Public schools. The GOP goal is to recreate segregation, expand the opportunity gap, and destroy the foundation of our democracy."
"I think it's a very serious mistake and the result will be that, within a decade, Arizona will have a very, very poorly educated adult population," added Carol Corbett Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. "Maybe that's the game."
"One of the things people never fully comprehend is how far privatization advocates want to take things," he said. "They want to get rid of all public funding for education. Eventually vouchers will die off too." What will remain, he argues, will be a self-funded primary education system, funded by a lending market much as colleges are. Or as Lewis says, a "system of haves and have-nots."
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At this point, every post I put in the breaking news section feels like I'm documenting the rise of Christian Nationalism. It seems like every day...a little piece of our society is stripped away. A little closer to their vision of theocratic fascism. On it's own...this is not a huge deal. But take in the context of current events this is just one more chip away.
Trolling post is trolling.That’s not true. Christianity is objectively true
That's because she's an outlying idiot.GOP Lawmaker: Critics of Christian nationalism are 'domestic terrorists'
Republican conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that opponents of Christian nationalism were "domestic terrorists."onlysky.media
In this speech MTG calls everyone who opposes Christian Nationalism a domestic terrorist.
And for every independent.Vote against every Republican.
^--aaaaaaaaaaa......HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Public education is there for education and that is THE definitive measure by which you assess it's efficacy. That you know it's shit so you blather on about some other bullshit makes your comment hilarious.If what you find funny was the only metric by which to judge public education, you'd have a point.
Outlying my ass. Trump mainstreamed obtuse lunatics like her.That's because she's an outlying idiot.
It only gets defunded if the parents choose not to send their kids to public school. Is that fascism? Is it even a little bit of fascism? Or is it a result of a multi-decade failing of the public school systems, that have only gotten worse. That schools are basically just older kid daycare now while parents go to work. That schools are spending too much effort, time, and money on things like radical gender ideology that most people have rightly rejected?I was homeschooled. I don't care if people are homeschooled. But it is very clear this is a concerted effort to defund public schools, and THAT I am strongly against.
The Christian Nationalists are NOT opposed to a one size fits all education. They only dislike the fact that the education isn't a theocratic curriculum.
Which is a good thing.
You might want to be introspective about why this happened. You can’t tell the majority demographic to hate themselves and they deserve to be crushed underfoot forever without pushback
There is no impending “theocratic fascism” which is a made up term that means nothing anyway. What you use that term to refer to is neither theocratic nor fascist
You're wrong. Religion is most definitely taught in school. It's just radical gender ideology and racial essentialism.Public schools where religion isn't taught are indoctrination, people. If we become a more Christian country, with fewer public schools not mandated by religious doctrine, there won't be any indoctrination.
Libertarianism, folks.
Parents don't pick their kids and homeschool parents out-perform public schools even when they aren't college educated. That's pathetic.Funny how easy that is when you PICK the students..
The school is what gets picked, not the students.
And Democrat. Both parties need to go.Vote against every Republican.
^--aaaaaaaaaaa......HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Public education is there for education and that is THE definitive measure by which you assess it's efficacy.
You're wrong. Religion is most definitely taught in school.
It only gets defunded if the parents choose not to send their kids to public school. Is that fascism? Is it even a little bit of fascism? Or is it a result of a multi-decade failing of the public school systems, that have only gotten worse. That schools are basically just older kid daycare now while parents go to work. That schools are spending too much effort, time, and money on things like radical gender ideology that most people have rightly rejected?
2000, 2016.Since when in world history has a minority been unable to impose its will on the majority?
What did you expect with the lunacy of democrats and what they want taught to even the youngest kids in our public schools. Parents don't like it and they are showing it. If schools did a better job of education instead of politicization this would not be the problem it is becoming. Teachers who don't want to show up to teach but want to sit on their duff at home and post a lesson. The result in test scores has been very revealing, that system of education was a failure. The public schools are being given an opportunity to fix the problems and keep their students and ultimately their jobs. Do a better job and stop push the extreme liberal social policies in our schools.[snip]Arizona moves "to kill public education" with new voucher law
Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP's new scheme: "Every red state" urged to followwww.salon.com
Last Friday, while the country reeled from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, Arizona made history of a different sort. Legislators in the Grand Canyon State passed a universal school voucher bill that, once signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, will become the most wide-reaching school privatization plan in the country.
In his January State of the State address, Ducey called on Arizona lawmakers to send him bills that would "expand school choice any way we can," and the Republican-dominated legislature obliged, delivering last Friday's bill, which will open a preexisting program for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) up to the entire state. In practice, the law will now give parents who opt out of public schools a debit card for roughly $7,000 per child that can be used to pay for private school tuition, but also for much more: for religious schools, homeschool expenses, tutoring, online classes, education supplies and fees associated with "microschools"
"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."
From Rhode Island, anti-CRT activist Nicole Solas, a fellow with the right-wing Independent Women's Forum, tweeted, "You know what happens when you abuse people? People leave you. Bye, public school."
"The Republican universal voucher system is designed to kill public education," tweeted former Arizona House Rep. Diego Rodriguez. "OUR nation's greatness is built on free Public schools. The GOP goal is to recreate segregation, expand the opportunity gap, and destroy the foundation of our democracy."
"I think it's a very serious mistake and the result will be that, within a decade, Arizona will have a very, very poorly educated adult population," added Carol Corbett Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. "Maybe that's the game."
"One of the things people never fully comprehend is how far privatization advocates want to take things," he said. "They want to get rid of all public funding for education. Eventually vouchers will die off too." What will remain, he argues, will be a self-funded primary education system, funded by a lending market much as colleges are. Or as Lewis says, a "system of haves and have-nots."
[snip]
At this point, every post I put in the breaking news section feels like I'm documenting the rise of Christian Nationalism. It seems like every day...a little piece of our society is stripped away. A little closer to their vision of theocratic fascism. On it's own...this is not a huge deal. But take in the context of current events this is just one more chip away.
South Africa called, they have an opinion on this as well...2000, 2016.
Just to name too, off the top of my head...
the really funny thing is you are unable to prove that!The only thing that's funny here is that public schools get out-performed by every single option out there.
Sure, but that is not what this debate is about.Can a private school refuse to enroll a student?
Types like her are not the mainstream of GOP thinking. That's the extreme right. The whole of the Republican party is not calling for "Christian Nationalism".Outlying my ass. Trump mainstreamed obtuse lunatics like her.
[snip]Arizona moves "to kill public education" with new voucher law
Families who bail on public school will get $7,000 per kid in GOP's new scheme: "Every red state" urged to followwww.salon.com
Last Friday, while the country reeled from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, Arizona made history of a different sort. Legislators in the Grand Canyon State passed a universal school voucher bill that, once signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, will become the most wide-reaching school privatization plan in the country.
In his January State of the State address, Ducey called on Arizona lawmakers to send him bills that would "expand school choice any way we can," and the Republican-dominated legislature obliged, delivering last Friday's bill, which will open a preexisting program for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) up to the entire state. In practice, the law will now give parents who opt out of public schools a debit card for roughly $7,000 per child that can be used to pay for private school tuition, but also for much more: for religious schools, homeschool expenses, tutoring, online classes, education supplies and fees associated with "microschools"
"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."
From Rhode Island, anti-CRT activist Nicole Solas, a fellow with the right-wing Independent Women's Forum, tweeted, "You know what happens when you abuse people? People leave you. Bye, public school."
"The Republican universal voucher system is designed to kill public education," tweeted former Arizona House Rep. Diego Rodriguez. "OUR nation's greatness is built on free Public schools. The GOP goal is to recreate segregation, expand the opportunity gap, and destroy the foundation of our democracy."
"I think it's a very serious mistake and the result will be that, within a decade, Arizona will have a very, very poorly educated adult population," added Carol Corbett Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. "Maybe that's the game."
"One of the things people never fully comprehend is how far privatization advocates want to take things," he said. "They want to get rid of all public funding for education. Eventually vouchers will die off too." What will remain, he argues, will be a self-funded primary education system, funded by a lending market much as colleges are. Or as Lewis says, a "system of haves and have-nots."
[snip]
At this point, every post I put in the breaking news section feels like I'm documenting the rise of Christian Nationalism. It seems like every day...a little piece of our society is stripped away. A little closer to their vision of theocratic fascism. On it's own...this is not a huge deal. But take in the context of current events this is just one more chip away.