The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers available not just to the poor but to the wealthy.
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They should put something about this in the Constitution.
However, this comforts me because now I can afford to put my kids through private Satanic Temple school.
46 0 ReplyI seriously will send mine to a satanic charter school if this hits my state.
18 0 ReplySimple separation of church and state is no longer enough, we need to actively persecute churches that seek to subvert secularism.
16 0 ReplyAnd actively persecute billionaires who interfere in politics.
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However, this comforts me because now I can afford to put my kids through private Satanic Temple school.
If only the fundies weren't doing everything they can to selectively exclude those..
Aggressively secular schools are very much needed in a country as covertly (and sometimes overtly) theocratic as the US..
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Fuck no, I was raised in the church, and went to public schools. Let them pay for their own kids, they shouldn't use my dollars to spread their faith.
43 0 ReplyThat's a clever illustration!
10 0 ReplyHow do we stop it?
3 0 ReplySuper Luigi Galaxy
8 0 ReplyI used to prefer the Rampage version.
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I heard there was a voter initiative in Kentucky recently. It failed to achieve this.
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