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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Rufo absolutely wants to destroy public education
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn
Seems like every other day this guy says something like public institutions are inherently corrupt and our goal is to destroy them and people just sort of nod along but act as if he is orchestrating a good government campaign
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1:10 PM · Feb 20, 2022
Nevilledog
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Ethan Lynne
@ethanclynne
NEW: Virginia Republicans introduce budget bill that would strip hundreds of millions in funding from Virginia Public Schools.
1:50 PM · Feb 20, 2022 from Ashland, VA
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)And now public schools will lose funding.
The stupid hurts!
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Nevilledog
(50,687 posts)ymetca
(1,182 posts)in stating that schools are quasi "state-run monopolies on the transmission of education". But his indoctrination into neoliberal economics is showing. He'd probably be fine with our taxes being funneled into for-profit [insert anything here].
Maybe he's being a little more duplicitous in his assessment that schools are not a "marketplace of ideas". He just doesn't like what that so-called "market" is "teaching" us, which is that neoliberal economics is destroying the planet for profit, and monopolizing the Earth in ways much worse than he seems to understand. Naughty, naughty teachers, pointing out the injustice of all this!
When Capitalism becomes your God, you'll rationalize selling clean air and water, and the only individual right anyone has is to pay up or die. That's where they are at now.
But our planet is not a "marketplace". We either learn it's "rules" or it will kill us all off. That's what a true education is all about.