I’m so sorry to our younger millennial followers, but if Democrats don’t unite in fierce opposition to this uncaring, incompetent, anti-public school billionaire, you guys could be well and truly fucked…..
Reminder that this woman’s foundation advocates for the return of child labor because “practical education and social skills while learning the value of a dollar”.
She’s incredibly stupid and incompetent like Trumpy McFuckface, but she’ll bleed schools dry and send the kids back into the coal mines
They’re only a “dead end” in the sense that their funding literally relies on standardized test scores so bad scores means loss of funding which never made sense because why the fuck wouldn’t you want to give a school a better opportunity to educate kids?
And tbh, that shit is something dems and the gop had a hand in implementing when it started with that shitass no child left behind act from Bush and the obama administration only dug the hole deeper by holding a competition for schools to get more funding by seeing who had the higher scores.
Which meant that impoverished schools were at an unfair disadvantage because they already couldn’t pay their teachers or afford better programs, books, and software. So how could they compete with public schools that were well-funded?
It became less about actual education and more about memorization of facts in order to get high scores on standardized tests so they could then justify begging for more funding.
If public schools are a dead end, it’s because the gop and democrats have made them a dead end.
Lets be honest here. What this is really about is Republicans are probably afraid of how educated Millennials are becoming, and because of that, Millennials are more likely to understand politics and make an educated vote (And thus, many of them vote Democrat, as demonstrated by the fact that the majority of voters under 25 voted for Clinton in this past election).
So Republicans want to prevent the next generation from being able to make an educated vote, because that usually means its a vote against them. Stupid voters to put them into office… stupid workforce to let them make even more money off of our backs… etc.
They prefer private schools because they believe Education is a privilege for the rich, and they want the poor masses to be uneducated so they’re more docile.
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