@jeffjarvis

Trump wants to make every state's public education system as squalid as the one in Mike Johnson's Louisiana.

@jeffjarvis They don't want to kill education - they want next generations being reeducated in private revisionist/revanchist ideology academies about the good of the U.S.'s Confederate cancer regrettably still metastasizing long after the states of the defeated Confederacy had to ratify the Reconstruction Amendments to be given congressional representation back.

"...
I suggest for your earnest consideration, and most earnestly recommend it, that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, making it the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools adequate to the education of all the children in the rudimentary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex, color, birthplace, or religions; forbidding the teaching in said schools of religious, atheistic, or pagan tenets;

and prohibiting the granting of any school funds or school taxes, or any part thereof, either by legislative, municipal, or other authority, for the benefit or in aid, directly or indirectly, of any religious sect or denomination, or in aid or for the benefit of any other object of any nature or kind whatever.
..."
— 18th President of the U.S. & victorious Army General Ulysses S. Grant —

Just so you know, where the enmity towards public schools is coming from.

@jeffjarvis

Remember, all a voucher is is a coupon for rich people who were going to pay full price to send their kids to private school anyway.

If a voucher covers $5,000 of $15,000 tuition poor people still aren't going to pay that difference.

Vouchers are a way in which to make education a class feature for the wealthy. Conservatives have been trying to do this since Nixon at least, if not further.

What is being "conserved" in conservatism is aristocracy, oligarchy and feudalism.

@jeffjarvis I saw Tech Bros yesterday celebrating the coming of a Time when people can no longer read, but just watch videos.

It's not theoretical what they are doing, it's being put into practice.

@jeffjarvis Republicans will eventually impose something bogus on us that allows employers to reject job applicants from public schools based on alleged inferior skills and training capacity.

Republicans want *their kind of white people* to send *their* kids to *their* madrassas, thus tagging everyone else as genetically and ethically inferior to be exploited and suppressed.

@jeffjarvis

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Building a permanent caste system relies on segregation.

An underclass can be built by withholding education from the 99%.

'The Cruelty is the Point' indoctrination of the 1% next generation is also a requirement.

Republican billionaires like Koch Network pat themselves on the back for driving literacy levels below the 6th grade."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/arizona-fight-koch-brothers-school-vouchers

https://jacobin.com/2018/06/public-education-privatization-koch-brothers-teachers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/public-education-ground-zero-radical-rights-assault-democracy-says-historian

@jeffjarvis
While I no longer have kids in school, living in Arizona, I find the voucher system troubling. I made my voice heard on the issue because I could see the way this was going to take money away from public schools. I don't care if parents want their kids to go to a "religious" school of any kind, but public funds should not be used to support it, the PARENTS should be underwriting that cost, not tax payers that may believe something different! #resist#NoVouchers