How did this turn into public vs private/voucher argument?

In principle, at least, I believe that public education is a bedrock of democracy. As someone whose kid had special needs and was badly ill-served by public school, we did not have vouchers, and the only private alternatives anyway were Christian schools, and initiated a lawsuit but had to withdraw $30k in, for financial reasons only, my experience as a parent of a public school kid sucked badly.

But I knew parents in regions that had charters and whose kids had SN who found the charters sucked as well.

Republicans aren't racist. Seriously, you people are damaged.

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Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

If all the white people with some cheddar move to whiter counties, cities and states and make them even whiter people will cry and complain about the eroding of the tax base of the places they left.

If you think someone moving out of Arlington won’t immediately be replaced by someone with a higher income think again.

People of higher income are not an endless resource. In the coming recession, they will become a rare quantity.

People who actually care about brown kids having choices and opportunities support vouchers. People who just want to virtue signal and keep their private schools elite do not. Sometimes I think some of us liberals are just as racist as the Republicans, but we express it in different ways.

Opposing vouchers means that a black kid has no options other than their local failing schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

If all the white people with some cheddar move to whiter counties, cities and states and make them even whiter people will cry and complain about the eroding of the tax base of the places they left.

If you think someone moving out of Arlington won’t immediately be replaced by someone with a higher income think again.

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Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

The “county” doesn’t have any money, they rely on the people you like to complain about. Your welcome to be responsible for your own kids though, that would be great.

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Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

If all the white people with some cheddar move to whiter counties, cities and states and make them even whiter people will cry and complain about the eroding of the tax base of the places they left.

Anonymous wrote:The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

Except it’s not ‘their’ money. It’s the county’s money. You’re welcome to sell your house and move though.

All politicians' kids should be forced to attend public schools right through to high school graduation. That is what some people are forced to do, and it should be what the people who REPRESENT those people are forced to do. I can't believe it's even a question. It will never be equal or fair - there's no question that the public schools in good areas are a billion times better than the public schools in crappy areas - but at least they should be forced to attend public schools.

If people like Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls were forced to attend their local public school right through to graduation, we would have school choice and a functioning voucher system pretty quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The problem is poor and brown people suffer the most from Covid. So shut it.

And screw your vouchers.

public schools have failed brown people for decades

keeping the status quo is the epitome of suffering for these folks all because people like you care more about teacher unions than actual students.

But a few of these people might choose to send their kid to a Catholic school. So none of them should have school choice.

Everyone saying public school is so great, how come anyone who has half a chance tries to escape them? There's a reason members of Congress dont send their children or god children to public schools unless they're very segregated, specialized, wealthy ones.

The Nation's favorite pastime is vilifying white people. But let white people suggest they'd like to send their money and kids somewhere else and all hell breaks loose.

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Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The problem is poor and brown people suffer the most from Covid. So shut it.

And screw your vouchers.

public schools have failed brown people for decades

keeping the status quo is the epitome of suffering for these folks all because people like you care more about teacher unions than actual students.

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Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

They talk a good game and then choose "elite" experiences and lifestyles for themselves and the those in their circles.

charter and private schools provide a much better experience for a cheaper price than public. Even for many special ed kids. Public is totally corrupt especially for inner city kids.

5 years of vouchers and the public schools will have cleaned up their game. Private schools arent going to pay pedophiles not to teach, for example.

No they don’t. The vast majority of charters suck and many are outright scams.

Privates are hugely inefficient and are certainly not better “for the price.”

Anonymous wrote:This is stupid. Underprivileged kids suffer the most from school closures.

I personally think all tuition dollars should be converted to vouchers. Let parents choose where to send their kids. What the public school system needs is a little competition. Even Alexandria Ocasio Cortes got her god daughter into a charter school.

The problem is poor and brown people suffer the most from Covid. So shut it.

And screw your vouchers.

She is frequently wrong but rarely in doubt.