Private religious schools should never get one cent of public money, for any reason. It is not the government's job to back-stop anybody's religion. The smoke screen of giving parents a choice, is in fact making Arkansas' already awful schools even worse by taking funding away from them. Once you realize the Republicans want to create a permanent American underclass, much of what they do becomes apparent.
From the first I heard of "voucher" programs, I have been utterly and adamantly opposed to them. Too often, they drain monies away from public schools which are operating on the margins of competency and render them even less effective at their missions than they already are. Considering her previous decision regarding child labor, Governor Sanders' actions here just continue to follow the same dangerous pattern.
Her goal is simple, insofar as I can see it: the dismantling of public education and the de-education of Arkansas' kids, who apparently are meant for the labor pool of the Natural State ... though what's "natural" about that utterly escapes me.
Texas Governor Razor Wire McPanderWheels is forcing a special legislative session to set up the same entitlement program for Texas. This is the only issue some leges are bucking him on. The rural districts can’t afford to let their public schools rot on the vine like the Karenland suburbs can.
Of course it’s wealthy families benefiting from this, I’m betting they’re majority white. Of course it’s religious schools benefiting from this, I’m betting they’re majority evangelical Christian. Corporate America has teamed up with the theocrats to create a caste system in the USA so they have an endless supply of disposable workers who don’t complain when they’re abused.
They’ve been looking to defund public education for generations. Especially if it benefits people of color. This is the way they’ve found to package it as something the base approves or they can get away with it without the immediate ire of the folks on the left.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. A big salute to all the native populations of this hemisphere. And a big middle finger to all the Christian invaders who made those peoples lives a living hellish nightmare.
Today also marks what would have been John Lennon's 83rd birthday had he not been assassinated by a devout Christian. If Yoko Ono has her way, Mark David Chapman will never taste freedom again. Good!
As it turns out, this is also the birthday of John and Yoko's son Sean. He turns 48 today, meaning he outlived his father by almost a decade.
I am not only against vouchers. I am against private schools. If there is a need for special schools let them be run as public schools open to everyone who needs them.
If you have the means to pay for a private school, you pay out of your pocket or you try to get a non state funded scholarship, point.
A little of my school history. My parents had the choice for boarding schools, three (that I know of) specialised for children whose parents travel a lot for work (bargees, carnies, gypsies). They also have a pick of others private and public boardschool. They choose C, even if it was not convenient for them for two reasons :
A) My paternal grandparents lived less than 5 kilometres away.
B) Theses boardschools are actually dormitories and have a contract with public schools. DM especially wanted me to have contact with children outside my subculture.
I would imagine everyone here already knows this, but I'll say it anyway: We cannot kick religion out of education fast enough. These all-too-Christianized schools are a burden on society as a whole, and not just because of the tax dollars lost to them. Indoctrination is for Sunday School, not for actual education of future generations.
I don't have kids, but somehow the Republican party has managed to offend me over this time and time again. They insist on things like 'school choice' that mean spending taxpayer dollars on Little Junior Bigbucks going to a private school, while denying Little Sammy Poorguy any education at all. It's got to be one of the worst forms of elitism, and they refuse to stop doing it; what makes it even worse is they've convinced their base that it's a 'good thing'! The very base that is suffering though this BS is voting for it, so far as I can tell.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, really. I know that here in Arizona, the legislature starts staring at the public education budget every time money needs to be spent on a project of any kind. This state is so red it's practically bloody, so voting the Republicans out just ain't gonna happen. I keep trying anyway, and telling myself that neither violence nor jail time will solve the problem.
You don't get much more mean-spirited than Sarah Sanders - all in the name of her performative christianity. This is the same person who lifted legal barriers against minors working in sometimes dangerous industries. The same person who made it more onerous to apply for medicaid with over 82,000 losing coverage due to deliberate measures enacted by the governor. The same person who put in place a near total ban on abortion risking the lives and health of women in Arkansas and condemning some non-viable newborns to a slow, cruel death. Oh, but she revels in her unyielding position against pressure to remove a chalk drawing of a christian cross at the capitol building - not to mention the ever-present cross hanging around her neck. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/01/sanders-vows-not-to-erase-chalk-drawing-of-cross/
I have to take city streets to get to the pickleball courts, but there's not a direct route. I have to keep making left and right turns, just like everybody else who uses city streets. How horribly inconvenient! I want a straight-line shot directly from my house to the courts, cutting diagonally across all those city blocks, and a parking lot immediately adjacent to the courts as soon as I arrive. I call it "pickleball choice", and I absolutely insist that the city government has to pay for it. Maybe if I formed my own church people would take me more seriously.
OT : I take back what I said. I was better off without the proteinated drink. They changed the brand, it's sweeter than the previous one and I mean nausea inducing sweet 🤮
Sarah Huckleberry Slanders is one of the byproducts of America's worst decision and most unqualified, inept, destructive president in its history. Jesus should be proud of his work.
Private religious schools should never get one cent of public money, for any reason. It is not the government's job to back-stop anybody's religion. The smoke screen of giving parents a choice, is in fact making Arkansas' already awful schools even worse by taking funding away from them. Once you realize the Republicans want to create a permanent American underclass, much of what they do becomes apparent.
From the first I heard of "voucher" programs, I have been utterly and adamantly opposed to them. Too often, they drain monies away from public schools which are operating on the margins of competency and render them even less effective at their missions than they already are. Considering her previous decision regarding child labor, Governor Sanders' actions here just continue to follow the same dangerous pattern.
Her goal is simple, insofar as I can see it: the dismantling of public education and the de-education of Arkansas' kids, who apparently are meant for the labor pool of the Natural State ... though what's "natural" about that utterly escapes me.
Arkansas. Ranked 5th from the very bottom of states to live in. Ranked an even worse 47th in health care.
Education? 43rd. Which Sanders & Co. look to torpedo and send to the bottom.
Texas Governor Razor Wire McPanderWheels is forcing a special legislative session to set up the same entitlement program for Texas. This is the only issue some leges are bucking him on. The rural districts can’t afford to let their public schools rot on the vine like the Karenland suburbs can.
Of course it’s wealthy families benefiting from this, I’m betting they’re majority white. Of course it’s religious schools benefiting from this, I’m betting they’re majority evangelical Christian. Corporate America has teamed up with the theocrats to create a caste system in the USA so they have an endless supply of disposable workers who don’t complain when they’re abused.
They’ve been looking to defund public education for generations. Especially if it benefits people of color. This is the way they’ve found to package it as something the base approves or they can get away with it without the immediate ire of the folks on the left.
"Religious education" is an oxymoron.
First, tax-exempt status - we literally subsidize religion. Then
Second, funding religious schools - we subsidize indoctrination and grooming to boot.
What's wrong with this picture?
OT
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. A big salute to all the native populations of this hemisphere. And a big middle finger to all the Christian invaders who made those peoples lives a living hellish nightmare.
Today also marks what would have been John Lennon's 83rd birthday had he not been assassinated by a devout Christian. If Yoko Ono has her way, Mark David Chapman will never taste freedom again. Good!
As it turns out, this is also the birthday of John and Yoko's son Sean. He turns 48 today, meaning he outlived his father by almost a decade.
Every private school will get a $20,000 podium.
I am not only against vouchers. I am against private schools. If there is a need for special schools let them be run as public schools open to everyone who needs them.
If you have the means to pay for a private school, you pay out of your pocket or you try to get a non state funded scholarship, point.
A little of my school history. My parents had the choice for boarding schools, three (that I know of) specialised for children whose parents travel a lot for work (bargees, carnies, gypsies). They also have a pick of others private and public boardschool. They choose C, even if it was not convenient for them for two reasons :
A) My paternal grandparents lived less than 5 kilometres away.
B) Theses boardschools are actually dormitories and have a contract with public schools. DM especially wanted me to have contact with children outside my subculture.
I would imagine everyone here already knows this, but I'll say it anyway: We cannot kick religion out of education fast enough. These all-too-Christianized schools are a burden on society as a whole, and not just because of the tax dollars lost to them. Indoctrination is for Sunday School, not for actual education of future generations.
I don't have kids, but somehow the Republican party has managed to offend me over this time and time again. They insist on things like 'school choice' that mean spending taxpayer dollars on Little Junior Bigbucks going to a private school, while denying Little Sammy Poorguy any education at all. It's got to be one of the worst forms of elitism, and they refuse to stop doing it; what makes it even worse is they've convinced their base that it's a 'good thing'! The very base that is suffering though this BS is voting for it, so far as I can tell.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, really. I know that here in Arizona, the legislature starts staring at the public education budget every time money needs to be spent on a project of any kind. This state is so red it's practically bloody, so voting the Republicans out just ain't gonna happen. I keep trying anyway, and telling myself that neither violence nor jail time will solve the problem.
I just wish I knew what would solve it.
You don't get much more mean-spirited than Sarah Sanders - all in the name of her performative christianity. This is the same person who lifted legal barriers against minors working in sometimes dangerous industries. The same person who made it more onerous to apply for medicaid with over 82,000 losing coverage due to deliberate measures enacted by the governor. The same person who put in place a near total ban on abortion risking the lives and health of women in Arkansas and condemning some non-viable newborns to a slow, cruel death. Oh, but she revels in her unyielding position against pressure to remove a chalk drawing of a christian cross at the capitol building - not to mention the ever-present cross hanging around her neck. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/01/sanders-vows-not-to-erase-chalk-drawing-of-cross/
I have to take city streets to get to the pickleball courts, but there's not a direct route. I have to keep making left and right turns, just like everybody else who uses city streets. How horribly inconvenient! I want a straight-line shot directly from my house to the courts, cutting diagonally across all those city blocks, and a parking lot immediately adjacent to the courts as soon as I arrive. I call it "pickleball choice", and I absolutely insist that the city government has to pay for it. Maybe if I formed my own church people would take me more seriously.
OT : I take back what I said. I was better off without the proteinated drink. They changed the brand, it's sweeter than the previous one and I mean nausea inducing sweet 🤮
Sarah Huckleberry Slanders is one of the byproducts of America's worst decision and most unqualified, inept, destructive president in its history. Jesus should be proud of his work.