Hey there girls and boys, ever heard of THESE fuckwads?

[Stinky The Clown]

http://efinstitute.org

Educational Freedom Institute
20 nnnnnnnn
Phoenix, AZ 85012

Our Mission

EFI exists to research, document, and report the benefits that school choice provides to students, families, and communities.

We support policies that protect and promote school choice.

We pursue this mission using objective data and through publishing our findings.

EFI is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to these efforts.

I never heard of them until this morning when they ran an ad on the local NBC affiliate. Their website has lots of nothing and maps with links that go nowhere. Clearly this is all new and hastily assembled.

They want freedom for educational choice? What does that even mean? What it means is one more right wing attack on the social fabric of America.

"Tommy, you learn about gravity."

"Brenda, you study unicorn genetics."

I mean, really. What the absolute fuck?

[DeeNice]

1. "School choice" is code for privatizing and undermining the public schools.

They're selling the idea that it's a matter of "freedom" that they be able to go to a private school and be subsidized with taxpayer funds.

[StarryNite]

2. THIS

[sakabatou]

4. Yup.

[2naSalit]

9. Precisely.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Front Group

Astroturf finding a public purse to pick, all the while its supporters enjoy a tax write-off.

Thus honcho Dr. Corey DeAngelis PhD is a litigious sort who smells of DeVos, Koch, Mercer, et al.

[crickets]

5. It's the "Freedom" in the name that gives them away every time. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

8. You betcha. EVERY time. Without fail.

[lame54]

6. It's for Tommy's right to...

Challenge the teaching of gravity
Alternate gravity

[Hekate]

7. I had a sudden flashback to the segregated schools that suddenly became private schools to avoid...

… racial integration.

Yeah, there you are.

[hippywife]

12. Several years ago

I watched a news program talking about an organization that actually did this somewhere in one of the Carolinas, I think. Sure enough funding provided by Koch Bros.

[hippywife]

10. Are they funded

by the Kochs. Some of these types of astroturf type organizations are.

How ya doin, Stinky!

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Hi there, Hippywife! Long Time No See. You doing okay?

[hippywife]

13. Good as can be expected these days.

You know, with nothing much at all going on in the world. /s