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Public school enrollment in the U.S. slipping as alternatives gain political support (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Homeschooling should be illegal, too.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

no-oil this fucker right here should never be forgotten when public education is discussed

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Two awful peas in an awful pod.

At least we still have jeb

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But Werther's

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Buying a whole sea change of public opinion for 9 cents of candy is hilariously discouraging. We live on a clown world.

honk-enraged

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is actually insanely dangerous. I'm deeply afraid of this.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Yeah, just absolutely fucked.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Texas they either now allow or are going to allow private schools to take public funds. I don’t see how public education can even survive that.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The way they have been making HISD worse with that god awful superintendent, fucking sucks.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

I’ve only interacted with FWISD so I haven’t really seen it first had yet but I mean it’s the most blatant attack on the individual I’ve ever seen in my life I think. Like from now on you can guarantee your children will be less educated than yourself. It makes me sick and I don’t know what to do other than stuff that we shouldn’t talk about in open coms.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

"alternatives gain political support" glasses-off

"we took public schools out back and put a 12 gauge through them" glasses-on

[–] huf@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

It's gonna get real confusing when we get Maoist Standard Mandarin but the etymology stems from Maoist Standard English

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

This is really sad

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Im so glad i have an out of this fucking country

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

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!

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

All my children will go to Donda Academy

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

starting to think barbarism won, just a little bit

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Straight up, this sucks ass