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You left out an important part, el gato. The self- serving teachers unions will have to be abolished before school choice, especially in blue states, becomes widely available. Right now, they're willing to fight a cage death match at the first whiff of parents' ability to take their kids out of their terrible schools.

No accountability and brainwashing the public into thinking they're invariably hard working heroes has served them well the last few generations. Kids and families, not so much. Now we have kids who graduate high school illiterate and innumerate, not to mention unable to think for themselves.

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i would argue that school choice will see to that. who would choose schools run by such people?

all we need is to give kids and parents the right to say "no" and take their kids and funding with them.

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please enlighten us as to what would change on YOUR local level if you were granted by this magnanimous gov a "school choice". let's say you were "allowed" to take your children out of the current local school they are attending to another one. which one would you put them into on the local level?

do you see what a naive pipe dream you are advocating in the short and medium terms? all while you are being stolen from via prop taxes to pay for it all.

if i am wrong, please set me straight, if you can.

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What you're saying is that just allowing this, you're still choosing between one rotten run school versus another. I think the author is correct, it will start a movement in the right direction, but as a cure, it falls short. Baby steps, I suppose. They have set-up many dominoes on the table over the decades, this removes one. Many more to go after this. I think what each of you are saying has merit, I see the authors POV and it's not wrong, but it is one step of many. At this point, any win back in the direction we want it to be in is a plus. Bickering beyond this and creating our own internal division and battles only makes it more difficult to get back on track. Just my two cents, maybe I'm like the second dumbest guy in the world tho, so who knows... LOL.

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I asked the author a very simple question, and he of course will not answer it.

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All I am saying is that what the author is proposing is not a bad thing. It solves on piece of the big puzzle. A multifaceted approach to this is key. That's all. You can't dump out the puzzle box and have all the pieces magically come together, rather, you need to laboriously put each one in the right place. If we all works towards putting this puzzle back together rather than arguing about one piece, it gets pit back together faster. The divide and conquer strategy works for a reason, don't be division, be addition or multiplication, and if this doesn't work, be self subtraction and let those who have the heart to take on the tasks at hand work on them. My fight is not with you, I'll state you win any reply you rebut with. We have nearly 160 years of undoing the wrongs against us. I've chosen to take the fight on by changing my political status, it doesn't require huge numbers, rather, enough intelligent people to reinstitute our de jure govt and return to their birthright land and soil jurisdiction, becoming free of all this absurdity. I wish you well.

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On the cover of the puzzle box is the entire image solved. The big picture first.

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That's like saying I have a map to where gold is hidden and therefore found it already. But you're right, we have the map tho no red shoes, so we must put forth the effort. Having a picture of me with Disney in the background doesn't mean I experienced any of the rides, it's the experience that's important, the effort. But I said I'd concede, so you're right. :)

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that's why private schools exist. but you still get raped for the public school which is why prop taxes are a most pernicious theft.

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Private schools have gotten more ideologically leftist than the public schools under the guise of a better core education.

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that is also true for the most part, yes. the scourge of progressivism may also be seen on the university level, and it is nearly impossible to clear out, which again brings me back to the fact that property taxation to fund this insanity is the first step to dialing said insanity back. school choice in this context is a naive pipe dream when your choices are mostly between CRT skool a vs CRT skool b.

also, no person should be forced under threat of losing "their" home to have to pay for someone else's child's education, or food, or health for that matter.

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Meow!, i mean Yes!🐱funding must follow the child. School Choice Rules!💕🎯💕

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