Why is school choice

[Nexus2]

such a big deal?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. becauze soshulizm and Jeebus and shit

[Claustrum]

2. Because they don't like desegregated schools.

So they send their kids to private schools where the "poor black" people can't afford. But now, their tax dollars are spent on public schools that their kids aren't attending. So somehow, they have to funnel the public dollars to their school choice.

[struggle4progress]

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[RockRaven]

3. "School choice" is a euphemism for vouchers, which is a euphemism for public money

being transferred to religious schools (which are allowed to discriminate like crazy and can dodge many oversight/accountability standards, btw), at the cost of that money being taken away from public schools, to miseducate and indoctrinate the next batch of drooling drones that the next generation of elites will feed off of.

[Reader Rabbit]

4. Keeping "our precious angels" away from "those kids."

More dog whistle politics with a bit of classism thrown in.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. "School Choice" Is Just Another Scheme To Funnel Public Money To The Church

It's what "vouchers" were always meant to do. It's a giveaway of our tax dollars to church schools.

[jcgoldie]

6. destroy all public service and government

so someone can make money off your kids education. They want to destroy public education for the same reason they want to destroy the post office and medicare and social security. If its run by the government they cant profit off it.

[misanthrope]

10. And we have a winner

They want to kill the entire public sector.

[Claire Oh Nette]

7. Choice for whom?

School choice only works if mom and dad can drive you to that private/Christian/Charter school. If your parents work and can't get you there, then the only choice for them is the local public school.

Don't for one minute think that school choice means you choose the school, either. Those schools choose their students.

The notion that public school funding should be spent on Charters or religious school is ludicrous when the school aren't held accountable to the locals, but to their corporate owners.

Education, like the USPS, like the military, is a service provided to the community. Vouchers and "public charter schools" competing in the market place for students is ridiculous. Education should not be a contest.

full confession: teacher, peri-retired. I taught in public, private, and charter schools over 22 years. Charter = do it on the cheap.

[crickets]

9. K&R for the post and the discussion.