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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Ban charter/private/religious K-12. Rich and poor need to be in the same public ed boat and fight for it instead of having an escape hatch for complainers and the wealthy. Oh and have it be distributed per student state wide.

Charter schools are a trojan horse by the owner class to siphon what little is left of public ed funding into their pockets, after they already cut their own taxes starving public over and over to break it. Some charter schools may be "non-profit," but they all hire publically traded, for profit charter management companies. It's just another vector for their grift. They don't care, they bribed state governments to cut their taxes to starve public education, their kids don't go there, and they'd rather not pay for the pre-literate work force they benefit and profit from. Their kids go to private schools so they never learn to empathize with human beings who aren't wealthy when they grow up to exploit them. This is a core rot in this country, our owner class is segregated from their fellow Americans from birth by design. We're basically a foreign, impoverished country to them.

If every child, special populations excluded, were forced by law to attend public schools, and the funding were spread so that poor kid districts and rich kid districts got the same funding per kid state wide, you'd see funding and quality shoot up so fast your head would spin. Teaching would become a LUCRATIVE profession if the wealthy kids of every district were mixed in to every school.

Won't happen, this country is a corpse being picked clean, but if the people weren't deluded into worshipping their greedy, sociopathic oppressors as benevolent job creators, we could turn it around by making it an American problem instead of yet another poor American problem, and making Americans with means and time take ownership instead of using their power to make it worse to line their pockets as they have for half a century.

Instead, our national argument is whether poor kids in school deserve to EAT. What a garbage country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Additionally, school districts are largely fractured so that the rich don't pay for poor schools.

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