What makes vouchers in TX so ridiculous is that when you look at the distribution of private schools across the state, you immediately understand who benefits. The wealthy, more urban counties. #txlege
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It's not ridiculous when you remember that the whole POINT of vouchers in the first place is to make it easier for wealthy people to self-segregate and then defund the schools of "those people" on the backend.
Yea, but the Republican congressmen who are advocating for vouchers are representing the communities that have no avenue to benefit from them. The bliss of ignorance is about to run out.
True as that is, some variation of this has ALWAYS been the case. Poor communities didn't benefit economically from slavery OR racial segregation, and practices like redlining and debt peonage actually harmed them. Now we have migrant peonage and charter school elitism; same poison, new branding.
I agree, been happening for a long time, but there used to be a lot more cookies in the cookie jar. The greedy oppressors are about to take the last cookie. These school vouchers are only one of many of the impoverished communities’ coming exploitations.
EVEN if rural counties had private schools, most rural people are poor and cant afford them so... rural people are just gonna get even dumber than today, which is, I know, hard to fathom
Doesn’t this also make it easier to get funding for establishing a network of smaller Anglo-Christian private schools throughout the heartland to spread their hateful and divisive screed?
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where one Texas official sent public school funds
to a private school he had invested interest in