School Choice II

[cajunrevenge]

3 is the very reason it’s call led “choice”

If not, “yeah it’s called school choice but not that one, and that one that Cajun doesn’t like “

I just dont want public money subsidizing religion. You can indoctrinate your kids all you want, but it shouldnt be interwoven with education.

[cajunrevenge]

You can tell the posters on the forum that don’t have children

My perspective on this is as a kid who grew up atheist and have a religious family. If I am a kid sent to a religious school what happens if me the kid tells them I aint interested in their fairy tales? What happens if a kid is gay and is sent to a Christian school? Am I then going to be punished in school for not wanting it pushed on me? Is a gay kid going to be punished for being gay? I will give you the right of parents to indoctrinate their kids taking them to church or sending them to Sunday school but not in a real actual school where they are supposed to be learning real ****.

[thethe]

My perspective on this is as a kid who grew up atheist and have a religious family. If I am a kid sent to a religious school what happens if me the kid tells them I aint interested in their fairy tales? What happens if a kid is gay and is sent to a Christian school? Am I then going to be punished in school for not wanting it pushed on me? Is a gay kid going to be punished for being gay? I will give you the right of parents to indoctrinate their kids taking them to church or sending them to Sunday school but not in a real actual school where they are supposed to be learning real ****.

Holy red herring.

[acesfull86]

If only more of our unaccountable public schools were educating kids in “real ****”

[thethe]

Teaching kids how to live through life and problem solve is as important as anything else.

Basic Math and Reading skills are #1 but ultimately you have to develop children into young adults and that goes far beyond ABC's. Private and Religious schools do a far better job at doing that than public schools.

[Garmel]

If only more of our unaccountable public schools were educating kids in “real ****”

Exactly. So much of the stuff being taught in schools is about as real as what's in the Book of Genesis.

[cajunrevenge]

If only more of our unaccountable public schools were educating kids in “real ****”

I agree. They care more about indoctrinating certain beliefs into them than actual education. I dont want that indoctrination any more than I want the religious indoctrination.

[cajunrevenge]

Teaching kids how to live through life and problem solve is as important as anything else.

Basic Math and Reading skills are #1 but ultimately you have to develop children into young adults and that goes far beyond ABC's. Private and Religious schools do a far better job at doing that than public schools.

Basic legal education needs to be taught in schools. Its outright criminal that we fill these kids heads full of freedom nonsense and an environment where the school staff cant touch them then they get out in the real world and get their ass beat by cops. Kids get their legal knowledge from osmosis these days and for a lot of them they are too stupid to know fact from fiction.

[acesfull86]

[acesfull86]

[Tapate50]

Heyoooo! Good for Texas.

[acesfull86]

Heyoooo! Good for Texas.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/...-size-victory/

In Texas, Abbott endorsed 16 challengers to incumbents who had opposed his school choice proposal. Five others—likely seeing the writing on the wall—did not seek reelection. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Wednesday: “Abbott-backed challengers appear to have beaten six incumbents, with four more headed for runoffs. Six incumbents appear to have survived.”

Additionally, in open races without incumbents, Abbott-endorsed candidates won in four races, while two are headed to runoffs. None lost.

The school choice movement also may claim victory. The American Federation for Children’s associated super PAC, the AFC Victory Fund, engaged in 13 of 16 races Tuesday involving incumbents who oppose school choice. Ten of the 13 won or forced the incumbents into runoffs.


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Appears to be a pretty resounding victory. Even in the four elections heading to a runoff, I believe the school choice candidate finished ahead of the anti-choice in all four.

[acesfull86]

https://www.al.com/educationlab/2024...ecome-law.html

A bill that would give Alabama families $7,000 to pay for private school tuition is on its way to Gov. Kay Ivey’s desk to be signed into law.

HB129, called the CHOOSE Act, would create education savings accounts, or ESAs, for families of students to use toward eligible education expenses.

The final vote Wednesday was 23-9 and fell along party lines, with Republicans voting yes and Democrats voting no.

[acesfull86]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/six-de...ool-choice.amp

Six Louisiana Democrats bucked their party line by supporting universal school choice after a bill passed the state's House chamber on Monday.

"I know the political ramifications for me for voting for this bill," Louisiana Democratic State Rep. Jason Hughes said on the House chamber floor before the bill passed by a supermajority 71-32 vote.

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"But I don't need this $16,800 a year job bad enough to watch our children continue to live in poverty, trapped in failing schools, and not try to do something," Hughes said.

The passing of the bill came after Hughes said that he could no longer allow children in poverty to be trapped in a failing school.

"What do those families do? When a child is trapped in a failing school, a parent is working a minimum wage job, they can’t afford to do anything but leave their child in that failing school – what do we do? Do we just say I’m sorry and just leave that child in a failing school? What is the alternative for that child?," he said.



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Bravo!

[chop2chip]

Have they tried giving every kid an iPad yet?

[Tapate50]

Have they tried giving every kid an iPad yet?

Can learn a lot on YouTube !

[57Brave]

Jess Piper
@piper4missouri
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14h
Vouchers were created to keep White kids from going to school

with Black kids after the Brown V Board decision.

They were used to fund “segregation academies.”

That racist legacy has never wavered.

School vouchers are still a tool of segregationists.

[Tapate50]

Y’all need to make up your mind on segregation.

Two years ago we were adding black only prom

[sturg33]

Jess Piper
@piper4missouri
·
14h
Vouchers were created to keep White kids from going to school

with Black kids after the Brown V Board decision.

They were used to fund “segregation academies.”

That racist legacy has never wavered.

School vouchers are still a tool of segregationists.

So your opposition to school choice is because you believe it to be racist?

[Tapate50]

So your opposition to school choice is because you believe it to be racist?

Oh boy, now you gonna really do it. Segregation academies !