In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools
In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools
"We must build and maintain a public education system that serves all children," said one Democratic lawmaker.
It’s bad enough that religions get to freeload and not pay taxes but now they’re trying to take our tax dollars to pay for their indoctrination.
I love parts of Louisiana but my god what a shit hole state
Let's open a private school devoted to teaching CRT or some other boogyman they don't like and funnel all our tax money there and watch them get rid of the law as fast as they can.
Sounds like a job for the Satanic Temple
And they'd probably name it something like the "Jeff Landry Satanic School of Science" or something too. chef kiss
They are doing the (dark) lord's work
Imagine being that one downvoter in the sub so brainwashed you think this is a good thing. Believing you're persecuted as a Xtian and fighting some delusional battle for people's "souls".
I didn't downvote it, but have you considered that it might be a good thing for students?
The dream of the right since public schools became integrated.
They've been pushing for this for decades, just like the abortion ban. They're slowly getting all the awful things they want.
So does that mean that these private schools are bound to the US Constitution now? Freedom of speech, religion, etc?
This country DOES NOT speak the same language state to state on most topics - education chief among them. The concept of "education" means something completely different in Mississippi versus California, for instance.
There has been a slow motion systematic dismantling of public education in "red states" and things like the increasing prevalence of religious influence on our laws and education infrastructure. These things severely impact the quantity and quality of teaching resources. Republicans want undereducated, easily-frightened and broken people to grow up to not vote, or to vote to perpetuate the status quo that they know (an objectively broken system).
Charter schools are funded by vouchers. At first, you'd have options for multiple schools in most places, then the vouchers would cover less and less each year with you spending more and more out of pocket. Then, religious schools would in turn lower their tuitions (as they can afford to subsidize if it means indoctrinating new kids). The result is that families with less money would go with whatever the voucher covers, which would only be religious schools in more and more areas with tone. That's the plan.
Louisiana is CONSTANTLY at the bottom of the nation in terms of their education offerings. Here's one of those lists: https://www.newsweek.com/most-least-educated-states-america-ranked-1583019. These are craven theocratic fascists and they won't rest until public education is eliminated.
Without looking I’m sure Louisiana is already bottom state in at least a dozen major education metrics. This ensures that ten years from now it will be even more.
Private schools can push certain agendas to your minds for control easier than public schools. John oliver did a special on Charter schools and another on religious schools.
I guess it is time to let them try thier experiment. I think we all know how it will get twisted and perverted. But Louisiana is probably already a lost cause. Maybe we should provide financial assistance to people wanting to move from a red state to a blue state... kinda like internal asylum. It should go both ways of course.
Cut their federal funding and use the money to relocate people
We're been here before. People implement an extreme policy, the extreme policy makes life worse, then they say "the policy was good, but it didn't work because it didn't go far enough."
Of course they will. But everywhere else we will know better.
I agree, the money will end up embezzled and/or the teachers/pastors will be caught having sex with the children. It may change minds, maybe not. Moving the people out is dicey though.
PrivateReligious schoolsPrivate ReligiousRacist schools.Seriously, the private schools that are so prevalent in the South popped up after desegregation, and teach a wholly alternative US history.
Yeah - one of the most memorable news articles when I did research for my American childhood class was a mom taking a job immediately after her child’s school was integrated so she could send her kid to private school. I invite everyone in the states to check out when their local private schools were founded… there’s usually a clear pattern.
Yea this is happening in Tennessee too.