Not saying it was totally correct, but corporal punishment and dress codes kept students in line back in the day when I attended public school. The Jr. high science teacher kept his frat paddle hanging next to the blackboard. The teachers could actually teach w/o being threatened by rabble rousing parents, lawyers and the ACLU.
All are entitled to a good education for the kids. And public schools have failed at doing that. More money is not the solution if you cannot get rid of bad teachers and administrators.
Vouchers let parents decide the best action for their kids. And that is far better than letting the bureaucrats do it.
Leftists are vehemently pro-choice when it comes to aborting children, but prefer government monopoly schools to educate them. The exception is wealthy leftist politicians and other elites, who extol the wonders of government schools but quietly send their kids to private schools.
One of mine went to a charter school for middle school years, there was actually discipline and accountability. It was a very positive experience.
It will be a catch-22, as more students leave public schools and take taxpayer funds with them; then public schools have to cut back. If a high school only has 10 students who want to take chemistry/French then they will not be able to hire a chemistry/French teacher, so students who want to take those classes will have to go to a private school. BUT more important in many red towns it may lead to turning off the Friday Night Lights. Will the local high school be able to field a football/basketball team??
If the states want to go broke doing that then it’s on their voters but all federal funding should be cut from private/for profit schools and put back into the public ones as that’s an unneeded subsidy and should not be a burden on the nation.
The elite want you to pay for their private schools. Do you think they will let your grubby kids sit next to their precious offspring? Think again. School choice means the school chooses you, not the other way around.
LA passed a bill requiring posters of the 10 commandments in public schools; no plans on paying for these posters. LA governor is looking to take this to SCOTUS despite the topic being decided there long ago.
It is interesting that those with tons of money (i.e. the DeVos Family), really pushed for tax supported ‘private’ schools. Fortunately, Michigan will not fall to the Redpublican trap.
All the GOP ever wanted was to be able to write off private school tuition from their federal taxes, dollar for dollar. If the GOP had gotten that back in the 1990s, all of these attacks would not have started and progressed. Now that the GOP is 100% culture war and no policy ideas, public education became a bigger target.
braindead Premium Member 10 days ago
MAGAts hate education and,
MAGAts hate public anything, especially education.
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If we didn’t already have public libraries, MAGats would fight like hell to prevent them.
Hello Everyone 10 days ago
When did education become so political?
I know it did, but I remember when top schools were often Public. Some of them still are.
klbdds 9 days ago
Not saying it was totally correct, but corporal punishment and dress codes kept students in line back in the day when I attended public school. The Jr. high science teacher kept his frat paddle hanging next to the blackboard. The teachers could actually teach w/o being threatened by rabble rousing parents, lawyers and the ACLU.
aristoclesplato9 9 days ago
All are entitled to a good education for the kids. And public schools have failed at doing that. More money is not the solution if you cannot get rid of bad teachers and administrators.
Vouchers let parents decide the best action for their kids. And that is far better than letting the bureaucrats do it.
DC Swamp 9 days ago
Leftists are vehemently pro-choice when it comes to aborting children, but prefer government monopoly schools to educate them. The exception is wealthy leftist politicians and other elites, who extol the wonders of government schools but quietly send their kids to private schools.
One of mine went to a charter school for middle school years, there was actually discipline and accountability. It was a very positive experience.The Nodding Head 9 days ago
Education is the cure. Ignorance, fear, anger, and hatred are the diseases.
Ignorance, fear, anger, and hatred have long been the Republican platform. Therefore education must be undermined.
Onward, White Christian Nationalist soldiers, trained in taxpayer-supported White Christian Nationalist madrassas.
Gen.Flashman 9 days ago
It will be a catch-22, as more students leave public schools and take taxpayer funds with them; then public schools have to cut back. If a high school only has 10 students who want to take chemistry/French then they will not be able to hire a chemistry/French teacher, so students who want to take those classes will have to go to a private school. BUT more important in many red towns it may lead to turning off the Friday Night Lights. Will the local high school be able to field a football/basketball team??
NRHAWK Premium Member 9 days ago
If the states want to go broke doing that then it’s on their voters but all federal funding should be cut from private/for profit schools and put back into the public ones as that’s an unneeded subsidy and should not be a burden on the nation.
steveandeileen 9 days ago
White flight, and forcing the public to pay for those poor rich folk.
piper_gilbert 9 days ago
The elite want you to pay for their private schools. Do you think they will let your grubby kids sit next to their precious offspring? Think again. School choice means the school chooses you, not the other way around.
librarylady59 9 days ago
They’ll do their best to get the doors closed and locked.
cracker65 9 days ago
This one hits the Bullseye.
Nantucket Premium Member 9 days ago
LA passed a bill requiring posters of the 10 commandments in public schools; no plans on paying for these posters. LA governor is looking to take this to SCOTUS despite the topic being decided there long ago.
pamela welch Premium Member 9 days ago
Picture worth a 1000 words; well said Kevin!
tee929 9 days ago
It is interesting that those with tons of money (i.e. the DeVos Family), really pushed for tax supported ‘private’ schools. Fortunately, Michigan will not fall to the Redpublican trap.
tpcox928 8 days ago
All the GOP ever wanted was to be able to write off private school tuition from their federal taxes, dollar for dollar. If the GOP had gotten that back in the 1990s, all of these attacks would not have started and progressed. Now that the GOP is 100% culture war and no policy ideas, public education became a bigger target.