>>"A group of activists tied to the conservative legal movement and its financial architect, #LeonardLeo, are rallying around an effort to create a public Catholic school in #Oklahoma, hoping to build a test case to change the #SupremeCourt’s interpretation of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state." #SCOTUS
As someone who got a good public school education, but never had kids in schools, I consider my school district taxes an essential service & payback for what I received. But i’ll be damned if I think those public funds should go to private religious schools or home schoolers.
parents absolutely should have the choice of where to educate their kids, but not at the expense of public schools/taxpayers. I want my $ to go to making public schools better, teachers paid.
@PandaChronicle 100% that. I went to public schools, my kids went to both public and private (after public was forced to slash arts and music programs)
@PJ_Evans I live in CA and the charter schools here are taking funds away from public schools that are not charter. I’ve written a lot about this in the past. They’re not benign in CA. @WagesOf
@PJ_Evans@GottaLaff@WagesOf Unelected power was eventually broken or eroded in many countries by elected government which restrained unelected power & wealth.
Ever since the “economic Royalists” (as FDR called them) have worked to undermine, corrupt & and take away the control of government from the electorate.
This is just one of those ways. media control is key in this. all of the media is in the hands of economic Royalists we are in trouble.
This x1000!!! Daughter is a CA public school teacher and the charter schools are decimating public education here. They take a disproportionate amount of funding and cherry pick students leaving special needs kids, and the associated additional expenses for the public schools to bear. Additionally, they have poor or no standards for teacher qualifications. It's a mess.
I suppose there is an exception to everything. My wife teaches middle school special ed at a Georgia charter school with a significant percentage of kids on IEPs.
Suspect that there are good charter schools, however experience around here is pretty shocking. And, of course, this is from the perspective of the impact on public schools in the district.
@mastodonmigration@GottaLaff@WagesOf
HS in the next suburb became a K-12 charter school. It's still public, and had a good rep as a HS before it went charter.
My understanding is that charter schools were intended for experiments in other methods of teaching, not as a get-rich-quick thing.
@GottaLaff@DSWadeLPC Roe was a derivation (patient privacy) of a derivation (search and seizure) of settled law. Religious schools funded by public money is a direct result of the amendment.
I'm not going to be surprised if this passes our corrupt court, but it's not on the same level as Roe.
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