How Can States Give Tax Money to Private, Religious Schools? Loopholes, Of Course

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3. This isn't new. It's the original reasoning behind charter schools, many years ago.

Some areas of the country have always had trouble with having a sufficient tax base to provide decent public schools.
Whenever leaders tried to addresst that with sharing resources to equalize the quality of the schools, infrastructure, textbooks and other opportunities, the refomers would last until the next conservative sweep into power.

They then seduced low-income people into going into charters, with a bait and switch. A lot of those schools failed, but they took the money and ran.

The other push was to claim public schools were teaching kids how to practice sex acts in the classrooom as young six years old. This is a standard GOP tactic to frighten parents and demonize liberals and public schools. I've argued this with people in red states for years. I live in an ultra liberal area. It didn't happen with us, why should it happen anywhere else?

The conservatives have been attacking public education for decades and they've just about drowned it in some areas. They push homeschooling and anything to decimate the public schools. The CT people say that the public schools are in place to brainwash everyone to accept the 'NWO.' This is where your Teabagger school boards get their information.

They attacked one of the best American institutions striving to give students an equal playing field and learn about working with people of all kinds. And a feeling of solidarity with all. The public schools have been a way to have social mobility through making use of the commons to prepare young people to think outside their own experience.

The right are doing this to separate us, and religion and hate radio have played the strongest parts in doing so.