Highland Deac
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I'm sure this percentage will increase considerably if the GOP succeeds in passing all these new laws around the country.
“For too long, power-hungry bureaucrats and self-interested teachers unions have kept students shackled to failing government-run schools. They have done everything in their power to maintain a tight monopoly on K-12 education. During the pandemic, we saw just how detrimental this can be for students. That is why we need school choice now more than ever.”. Virginia Foxx
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the last part can't be true if you are pro voucher (credit or whatever you want to call it). as mdmh says, removing that money from public schools harms public schools.
The good faith reader would have noted these words "within the closed universe of public options".
The party of small government goes Orwellian in classrooms. And btw, these same Iowa Republicans also banned the press from the state legislature floor.
The good faith reader would notice I included a question mark specifically because I'm pretty sure you have been pro charter school and you specifically say you want money to follow the student. Am I miss remembering that? Your post above felt contradictory thus the question mark rather than something else.
Charter. Schools. ARE. Public. Schools.
That’s the scheme. If charter schools were the solution, they’d give public schools the same freedom. They don’t. That’s because the purpose of charters is to segregate and line pockets.
In NC Charters don't have to provide bus transportation for students, don't have to provide free or reduced school lunches for needy students, and only 50% of the faculty has to have a teaching license (which shows what GOP pols and some Democratic ones really think of teaching as a profession). And those are just some of the exceptions for Charters compared to traditional public schools.
Proposed OK bill will allow parents to sue individual teachers up to 10k "per incident, per individual" for teaching their child anything that conflicts with the parent or student's religious beliefs. The money would have to be paid by the teacher and not school funds, and if they couldn't pay they could be fired. Parents could also demand that schools remove any book with perceived "anti-religious" content, or the parents could sue the school for 10k. Under this law, merely discussing abortion, LGBT issues, evolution, and other topics in classrooms could all be forbidden.
At least we're now getting to the heart of why all this is happening in schools - "How dare you teach anything that might contradict what I'm telling them at home!" We've now had proposed bills in different states to put cameras in classrooms for parents to livestream, make teachers put every material and lesson plan they plan to teach online for parental approval, and now this. Public schools are just going to collapse if this continues.
Link: https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/politics/oklahoma-bill-allows-teachers-to-be-sued-by-parents-for-contradicting-students-religious-beliefs/527-6a310cd4-950c-46ef-b4bd-f7a9295ec9f5
Link #2: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-bill-religion-rob-standridge-b2007505.html#Echobox=1643927006