Public school enrollment in the U.S. slipping as alternatives gain political support
Public school enrollment in the U.S. slipping as alternatives gain political support
I remember in a Blowback episode George HW Bush was the Darth Vader of privatization (of the military).
Underfund thing -> it underperforms -> people get mad -> private option sounds good -> private option sells your organs
Two awful peas in an awful pod.
At least we still have
It sucks that this strategy seems to be working, and that libs seem to keep getting blindsided by it. Even though right-wingers explicitly, loudly talk about how their end goal is to eliminate public school entirely and have taxpayer-funded private christian schools as the primary educational institutes.
But Werther's
Buying a whole sea change of public opinion for 9 cents of candy is hilariously discouraging. We live on a clown world.
This is actually insanely dangerous. I'm deeply afraid of this.
"alternatives gain political support"
"we took public schools out back and put a 12 gauge through them"
what a future, when american children can toil in factories to make pool noodles that the chinese working class can buy, a dozen for a farthing...
It's gonna be an odd future where Chinese Maoists will be posting online about how the American Peasantry needs to rise up against the ChineSSe PMC Labor Aristocracy exploiting them for tasty treats!
This is really sad
Im so glad i have an out of this fucking country
I feel like I got a really good public education at a time when it was rare.
And now it's getting rarer. Not great!
All my children will go to Donda Academy
starting to think barbarism won, just a little bit
Historically, communist revolutions have occurred in countries with extremely low literacy rates. Once education becomes something only the bourgeoisie have access too, and is no longer being used as a means of pacifying the working class, the proletariat can "feel out" the contradictions in the system much more clearly, even if they would lack the means of articulating it all fully.
Straight up, this sucks ass
Private schools should be illegal, but barring that giving them state funds is just a roundabout way to kill public education. The right wing's war on public education is truly something to behold. They have made tremendous strides and yet we hear nothing about it outside of educator's circles and the odd news article like this one.
There is no institution in America whose primary aim isn’t to shake every last cent out of your pockets
It’s also fueled by racism, some white people will do anything to keep their children away from brown people.
Homeschooling should be illegal, too.