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
Nobody is better served attending a religious school and private schools are no longer the "prep schools" of the 50s, they are simply a way for white racists to avoid sending their kids to integrated schools. They are generally no better that and frequently inferior to public schools. You're making the standard white privilege argument, that rich people deserve better than the hoi polloi and taxpayers are supposed to help them pay for it. (Deductions for tuition for example.)
Fine! If the students aren't better served then they won't attend those schools, so the whole question is null.
@volkris
Ah, free market capitalism, the "invisible hand". They will attend those schools so that they can pray together to Jesus and learn absolutely nothing. "Better served" assumes that children will be better off, but no child is better off wasting their school time studying Bible stories and avoiding science and critical thinking. It will be parents judging that their kids are better off if they don't have to rub elbows with non-whites, not whether the kids are actually better served.
Otherwise it'll be you judging other peoples' kids...
Keep in mind that your projection of your own values on kids isn't particularly compelling.
@volkris
Much better to enable Xian crazies to fill kids' heads with Jesus on the taxpayers dime, right?
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” Barry Goldwater
Better to give people options for better educations for their kids, even if you yourself would impose restrictions because you are personally against them? I think so.
Again, I'm sorry you are afraid of these people, if you are leaning into this Barry Goldwater quote, but just because you are personally afraid it doesn't strike me as very good reason to keep better educations away from children.
I would generally just keep government out of those decisions.
@volkris
Better education can never involve state-supported religion. I am DEFINITELY afraid of the Talibangelicals and the Catholic SCOTUS, marching to the tune of the Archbishop of the Holy See. Theocracy is the worst form of gov't there is. There was hope for us in the 60s and 70s, but it all came unraveled during the Reagan years, with Xian crazies like Jerry Falwell and the execrable Billy Graham guiding the ship of state.
Xians elect homicidal sociopaths like #Trump and #Abbott.
Well that's an interesting religious perspective you have there. I just don't share your faith in that notion.
