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Guest Commentary: Ohio Lawmakers are Giving More Than $1 Billion to Private Schools While Public Schools Suffer
  • I'm 100% on board with separating church and state, and forbidding taxpayer funds to be used for religious indoctrination. But couching that intention in an argument about private schools stealing money from public schools is disingenuous.

  • Guest Commentary: Ohio Lawmakers are Giving More Than $1 Billion to Private Schools While Public Schools Suffer
  • Money intended to be used for educating children, is instead being used for...

    Educating children.

    If the dollars per child amount isn't enough, raise taxes. It's ridiculous to complain about not getting money for children you don't have to teach.

    Edit: if you want to argue that taxpayer money shouldn't be used for religious education, or that private schools need to be held to educational standards, I completely agree. But that's not what we're talking about.

    When I was a kid I went to a non-religious STEM School for 2 years. It was fantastic. They had all kinds of science stuff, computer programming, gifted classes. But after 2 years my parents couldn't afford it anymore so I went back to public school. I was doing so well and learning so much. Now when I hear about voucher programs I think of myself as a kid.

    I'm an adult now and my kids go to public school. I can't afford to send them to private school. I have a passion for reading and math, and have passed that to my kids. They're both several grade levels ahead, and their teacher is struggling with the kids who aren't going to be able to meet grade level. It breaks my heart to see how bored and lazy they are getting at school, because same damn thing happened to me.

    The voucher thing isn't all about Christians.

  • Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies
  • Not really about an endorsement of the two-party system. When you go to the gas pump and see a picture of biden's face with an I did that sticker, it's a pretty safe bet that the person who put that up is a Republican.

    Likewise, when you see someone criticizing the Biden administration for things that county jails are doing, safe bet it's a Republican.

    But apparently your definition of enlightened centerists includes people who know what the executive branch actually controls.

    Biden doesn't have a gas price dial on his desk, and doesn't set visitation policies for county jails.

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