The TX Republican coup against the Houston School system is truly repellent. They want to kill public schools and give the money to their corrupt friends in for-profit "education".
#uspolitics #texas #harriscounty
@vy
Really. Private and religious schools should not be permitted at all. (Certainly tuition and fees should NOT be deductible on one's income taxes.) All children should attend PUBLIC k-12 and home schooling should be disallowed unless the parent has a college degree, a teacher's certificate and the child has a disability of some sort.
What about the students who would have been better served by those options, and the teachers would would have preferred to teach in those places?
Seems like a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face.
@volkris @vy
It's "humanitarian calculus". The point to all-public schools is that local money would flow into them to make them better, as opposed to the wealthy locals shipping their kids off to a private school. It would be "easier" to increase funding for public schools if the rich and influential were required to send their kids to them. Public teachers could be paid more and picky teachers who don't want to teach Black kids or would rather pimp for Jesus can find another line of work.
I love how you are still tearing down instead of building up, encouraging teachers to find other lines of work instead of teaching students when you don't personally approve of their preferences.
Again it comes back to, well it sucks for those students who lose out on education from those teachers, but screw 'em, yeah?
They aren't the group that you personally favor, so you're happy to let that group lose out on education.
@volkris @Threadbane what kind of preferences?
I just know a few teachers, and also a few students, who prefer the other environments.
@volkris @Threadbane Which ones? If you prefer the White Nationalist Dominianist Christian environment, I don't have much sympathy. Preferences are not value free.
@vy @volkris
Why would I, an atheist, a social democrat politically further Left than Mahatma Gandhi, prefer White Nationalist Dominionist Xian ANYTHING? They're precisely the sort of people who should not be allowed to run schools and feed kids fascist rot, yet they can, and White Nationalist Dominionist Xians like you send their kids to them where they can learn all about blue-eyed Jesus instead of chemistry or the Holocaust, without any scurvy poor kids corrupting them.
