The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)
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Anonymous
| Will this legislation (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/833/text ) make it through congress and be signed into law? Will it spur improvement in public education or be its downfall? |
Anonymous
More GOP taxing public money for private (and most likely For Profit) schools to further decimate public education. All because they don’t want their kids to learn an accurate account of history. |
Anonymous
Next up, after mobile phones, Trump Charter Schools inspired by the North Korean educational system. The boys and girls will be required to wear long red ties and MAGA hats. |
Anonymous
| Christian MAGA madrasas churning out uninformed uneducated bigots. |
Anonymous
And just think— there are many, many people who would be ok with this set up or who would just learn to live with, and maybe even eventually, love it. |
Anonymous
| It's all fine. The funds will be offset by reneging on the retirement promises made to existing federal employees. |
Anonymous
No, it will not. |
Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
Gotta keep 'em stupid so they keep voting MAGA. |
Anonymous
Please show us where public school students are learning an accurate account of history, or really anything at all. Because if this were the case, you wouldn't have half the anxiety on this board that you do. |
Anonymous
| It is all about decimated public education and transferring public money to religious organizations (if they are the Christian religion, of course) |
Anonymous
There are plenty of well performing schools in the country. Show us where Liberty and Ben Jones graduates perform normally in society. |
Anonymous
If you were capable of reading the bill you would know this is about elementary and secondary education, which is simplified as K-12 education for public school grads. For college, which still kind of does well, some of the money follows the student and they can use their loans/grants on state schools, tech colleges, private schools and even religious private schools. This would allow the failing K-12 system to move more in the direction of the more successful collegiate model. It seems ridiculous to oppose such a change when everyone is stressed out about living in a "good" feeder pattern, or winning the lottery into the "good" schools, or having to fight every minor boundary change for every school. |
Anonymous
The anxiety is based on falsehoods. Come into the ordinary, blue-collar, middle-class public school I teach in. Gasp, there are two lesbians among our staff! Happily married (not to each other) and completely uninterested in children in any inappropriate way. And you know what we teach? Reality. Our history lessons don't go overboard in any direction! Shocking, right?! We're actually teaching a balanced account of historical events, using primary sources that I'm sure someone must've used a time machine to plant. We even pledge allegiance to the flag every morning. We write letters to vets. We explain both the importance of Columbus's sailing and the effects it had on the people already here. We teach the reasons for the Declaration and the actual words in the Constitution. Crazy stuff, right?! Our math lessons don't include word problems about Larla's two moms or the number of Bibles sold by the best-ever-president Trump. They teach math, lots and lots of math. Our reading lessons include authors from all over, just like the students in our class. Mein Kamp isn't particularly popular, but they're free to read it at home if they wish. As a matter of fact, if a student was reading it at lunchtime staff wouldn't interfere. We also wouldn't interfere with students studying the Bible, the Torah, or Quran or any similar text. We just won't force to do so (unless it's a part of a curriculum that is known to the public). Children aren't asked write essays on why they should seriously consider changing their gender or why America is the only civilized country to ever exist. There is, however, a lot of 'What I want to be when I grow up' or 'Which school lunch is best? Explain why'. Alas, our Science classes are not teaching that the Earth is flat, nor are we telling our children to ask a carrot's permission to eat it. We are teaching about photosynthesis, food chains, the periodic table, the water cycle, weather, matter, force, etc. I do know a teacher who struggled to explain animal adaptations to her class, however - she was homeschooled by her Christian mother and is struggling to understand. Nearly everything that people like PP think they know about public schools is just plain wrong. Speaking of public education as a whole - and of course there is someone, somewhere, something that is odd or weird or wrong or crazy out there because this is a big country, but those are definitely exceptions and not the rule - our goal is to provide the best possible balanced education to every child that we meet. We are very aware that their parents and guardians fall on both sides of the political spectrum and everywhere in between. We're not indoctrinating anyone. The truth is that merely being around other people creates a wider worldview than some parents want for their children. I'm so sick of hearing uninformed, parroted opinions like the one quoted above! And I don't want tax dollars to go towards schools that encourage ignorant self-contained citizen bubbles! |
Anonymous
You are comparing to universities where government spends money for people to go to public or private. |