"I really don't like city parks..."

[edhopper]

..."I want to join a country club so my kid doesn't have to play with "those kids",
and I want the city park system to pay for my membership.
School Vouchers in a nutshell."

Taken from Facebook.

[unweird]

1. Effin' A

[CrispyQ]

2. You can see their end game as they weaken child labor laws.

Education for my child, unskilled labor for yours. And no fucking lunch breaks, either!

The party of family values: my family is valuable, yours not so much.

[Glaisne]

9. Well said!

Sums up their views exactly!

[Jean Genie]

3. Parks

Well said, Ed!

[twodogsbarking]

4. You can take your gun to the park but maybe not your dog. Check local ordinances.

I'm not suggesting that this is fucking crazy.

[calimary]

12. Well, at least that would work for Kristi Noem...

[FakeNoose]

5. The irony is lost on them

So many conservatives (MAGAs) have just shut down their brains entirely.

[hadEnuf]

6. I think their brains and the intentions coming from them are working just fine.

They are entitled, racist and fascist. They know exactly what they are doing.

It's getting tiresome to keep trying to separate the "good Nazis" from the "bad Nazis".

Lay down with dogs and get up with fleas and all that....

[surfered]

7. Exactly, but vouchers are a wedge issue for the GOP.

The suburbs want them, but rural GOP voters understand vouchers will reduce funding for their beloved public school and they’ll never get the “choice” of a private school.

[TeamProg]

8. So true. nt

[Glaisne]

10. So, the city park system can pay

for "those kids" memberships too.

[TBF]

11. Fighting this in the trenches in Texas - where we are trying to get "less bad"

republicans to run against or fight off the "candidates" Greg Abbott is hand-picking to run against them

I am really hoping a lot of folks come out for Biden this fall and vote straight ticket, then the local dems would have a shot. But right now we're doing our best just to try to keep Governor Schmuck's candidates off the ballot in Nov. (Abbott has all this money flowing in from billionaire Jeff Yas in Pennsylvania - it's all in the contributions - he's a huge voucher proponent)

[IronLionZion]

13. Yup, and people complain in the news here about multi-year waits for private pool memberships

there is no wait for community pools. But the kids there are "those kids".

I grew up in rural northern Appalachia and was always the only brown face everywhere I went like school, church, parks, pools, etc. It wasn't much of a problem until I came to the DC area as an adult. Parents here really care a lot about which grade schools their kids get accepted into and still talk about their high schools well past their 30s.

No options at all where I'm from.

[ShazzieB]

14. No options where I grew up, either.

Except Catholic schools, and if you're not Catholic, that isn't much of an option.

(Nothing against Catholic schools, I assure you. It's just that any kind of faith based schooling is going to teach kids about a particular belief system, and if that's not your belief system, it's probably not where you want to send your kids.)

[twodogsbarking]

15. If you really don't like your kids send them to Catholic School.

[IronLionZion]

16. And the uniforms have their advantages and disadvantages

one doesn't have to worry too much about being unfashionable if everyone is wearing the same uniform. But I've heard girls were not a fan of skirts in winter.

Catholic school was an option for elementary school but we only had one large public high school.

[pnwmom]

17. Not just Catholic schools. The public schools in the two states I grew up in required girls to wear skirts.

We wore pants under our skirts to walk through the snow, and then took them off when we arrived.
The no pants rules finally disappeared after girls in shorter and shorter mini skirts filled the schools.

[senseandsensibility]

18. This is a perfect analogy!

[C Moon]

19. Near where I live (there's a rich area on the hill),

where most of the people want the city to kill every kind of wildlife they find unappealing:
coyotes, skunks, peacocks, etc.