@charlotteclymer MAGA thugs only want *choice when it punishes others by taking away rights: eg school choice, *pro life, antivaccine, right to work, religious rights
@carolleisa @charlotteclymer I'm curious how you see school choice as taking away rights. (For the others I can probably guess the circuitous argument.)
@ech @charlotteclymer Use of term school choice refers to post Brown v Board when separate but equal was partially overturned. Public funds started transfer to religious n private corporate schools. It really wasn’t so much choice as a covert way to bolster mostly white schools n control content. Busing later became part of the chaos in the ‘80s. City white kids in lottery had choice of corporate backed schools n tax money flowed back to suburban schools where city blacks could attend.
@carolleisa @charlotteclymer an hour away? these sound like problems that would go away with school choice?
@ech @charlotteclymer one reason that it was intolerable and didn’t work. A nightmare.
Anyway *Choice was fiction. Kids wanted to stay in their neighborhoods but instead of working with adults on opening up the neighborhoods the the powers thought making the kids do all the work to desegregate was the way to a better future. It wasn’t at least for Milw.