Why is there the perception of a war on public education?
And why do the battlefields concentrate in the redlands?
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Because Republican legislatures want to end public education and transfer it to church based schools. They view it as a waste of money.
There has been an ongoing cut to funding public education, especially in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and West Virginia.
And there is bipartisan support for charter schools.
Well, part of Oklahoma’s problem is they don’t charge property taxes. Their roads are shit, too.
@zenvelo True, they just want charter and private schools, which in red states do tend to swing to Catholic or other religious schools. It’s all about the education received.
The South has always been notorious for denying the necessity for taxation, and has as a consequence reaped the predictable and visibly bountiful fruits. Brownback and others strive mightily to import such thinking to our less blighted regions, and of course, the current President promises to “drain the swamp” through relieving the rich from taxation.
@KNOWITALL So it has nothing to do with for-profit school companies, or with who gets what quality of education (as in, not having rich white people’s taxes go to providing equal education to poor colored children)?
@Zaku Private schools here do fundraising and accept private donations because tuition and parish donations aren’t always enough to balance the expenses. We have one slightly elitist school here that has 100% college attendence and the highest ACT average in the entire city, which is significant for educational purposes.
As far as poor kids (I won’t acknowledge the racial portion) they have a lot of scholarships for private schools.
This:
“In August 2017, with bipartisan support, the House and Senate passed a comprehensive education funding bill that was signed into law by the governor. The law includes a provision for tax credit scholarships, which provide strong incentives for donors to support non-public school scholarships for low-income students in the state. Illinois students from low-income families may use these new scholarships to attend a non-public school of their choice.”
https://www.dio.org/schools/investinkids.html
Charter schools would allow your money to follow your child basically. So if you have a public school tax of 5%, but your child goes to a charter school, the charter school gets your tax money.
It’s ALL about the quality of education! Many of us vote for school taxes every time, even if we have no children. Last night we just passed another two taxes for the community college, actually.
From somebody outside looking in at your country it just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
Holy crap! “Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946 in Missouri. In 1986 the columnist and author made history when she was named in The Guinness Book of World Records as the person possessing the highest IQ, with a reported score of 228. She is said to have achieved the score on the Stanford-Binet test at the age of ten. In the mid 1980s, Savant also took the controversial Mega Test, scoring an IQ of 186. In the wake of her newfound fame, Parade magazine launched the popular “Ask Marilyn” column, which still runs today. Savant has been a member of elite “one-in-a-million” IQ society the Mega Society. And in 1989 New York magazine called her and husband Robert Jarvik – who designed the first successful artificial heart – “the smartest couple in New York.”
Fascinating! 50 years ago I bet they wouldn’t have accepted the results.
Because of things like this, and stupid shit like this.
Because Betty DeVos is Secretary of Education.
I can tell you in this part of the south every new tax is “for the schools” yet somehow the schools never seem to have enough money.
Because public schools have become indoctrination centers that have taken to passing anyone that shows up. Or doesn’t. The focus is not on education, it is on cranking out students so the tax money continues.
How does cranking out students make more money? If they wanted more money everyone would be a 8th year senior.
Oh yes, all those public school teachers rolling in their BMW’s…
It’s enrollment numbers that make the money, not the number of students graduating.
We’re missing the point. The country has its share of smart people. The deficit is in knowledgeable people. It’s exactly the same situation as the one around wealth. There are some people with I Qs so high that they will excel regardless of where they were born, reared or educated. But we are clearly in trouble if our future is to be based on genetic good luck. The great bulk of us need exposure to ideas and concepts as well as training toward critical thinking. And no commentary regarding the blight on critical thinking currently scourging the country can surpass the entrenchment of Trump in the white house!
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