This is fucked. They are allowing your tax dollars to be used for Christian Fundamentalist Schools. All that fear mongering about “brainwashing” your kids with CRT and the LGBT-agenda in public schools that never existed, and the Republicans are literally trying to push a religious agenda down the throats of this citizens of this state.
How long before girls are banned from the higher level STEM classes and instead required to take Home Ec and urged to be stay at home mothers and wives, you know, like Harrison Butker and his wife suggested?
We are fucking backsliding as a society…
We are fucking backsliding as a society
Conservatives are backsliding as hard as they can and are dragging the normal people down with them.
Conservatism is social cancer.
Religion is the enemy of social progress. Always has been, always will be.
Also a form of control for those on top
I wish I could upvote you more than once
It’s worse than that. The money that goes to private schools is taken from public school funding. It’s just another way to further separate classes.
Yeah. It’s bad. In case anyone can’t see the writing on the wall, they are going to give everyone vouchers so that they can afford to leave public schools and go to private schools and then gut them later.
The vouchers will further tank public schools. Republicans will then be able to argue that public schools are failing, that attendance rates as abysmal, and they should shut down funding to them (and conservative voters will eat that shit up as their entire world view is based on sound bites they got from Fox News). I bet the voucher programs don’t last much longer after that once there is no alternative.
Louisiana was rated the worst state in America. They’re cementing that position.
It’s bad enough that religions get to freeload and not pay taxes but now they’re trying to take our tax dollars to pay for their indoctrination.
I love parts of Louisiana but my god what a shit hole state
Let’s open a private school devoted to teaching CRT or some other boogyman they don’t like and funnel all our tax money there and watch them get rid of the law as fast as they can.
Sounds like a job for the Satanic Temple
And they’d probably name it something like the “Jeff Landry Satanic School of Science” or something too. chef kiss
They are doing the (dark) lord’s work
Imagine being that one downvoter in the sub so brainwashed you think this is a good thing. Believing you’re persecuted as a Xtian and fighting some delusional battle for people’s “souls”.
I didn’t downvote it, but have you considered that it might be a good thing for students?
Okay, I’ll bite. In your view- How does taking money away from public school to fund more religious schools help students?
They learn the TRUTH that the Earth is only 6000 years old and humans were made from dust. Obviously.
Toss in a man’s rib, and you got a stew going
It’s not all going to go to religious schools, there are private schools that teach kids without an emphasis on religion.
Ok. So the same question - How does a private school getting public school funds help the students of the public schools?
It doesn’t help students of public schools. But it helps the students who are now going to the private schools.
And since they are private why should they be getting tax dollars?
Because there teach students. When did our goal become to make public schools good instead of having an educated population?
The dream of the right since public schools became integrated.
They’ve been pushing for this for decades, just like the abortion ban. They’re slowly getting all the awful things they want.
Private schools can push certain agendas to your minds for control easier than public schools. John oliver did a special on Charter schools and another on religious schools.
So does that mean that these private schools are bound to the US Constitution now? Freedom of speech, religion, etc?
Without looking I’m sure Louisiana is already bottom state in at least a dozen major education metrics. This ensures that ten years from now it will be even more.
This country DOES NOT speak the same language state to state on most topics - education chief among them. The concept of “education” means something completely different in Mississippi versus California, for instance.
There has been a slow motion systematic dismantling of public education in “red states” and things like the increasing prevalence of religious influence on our laws and education infrastructure. These things severely impact the quantity and quality of teaching resources. Republicans want undereducated, easily-frightened and broken people to grow up to not vote, or to vote to perpetuate the status quo that they know (an objectively broken system).
Charter schools are funded by vouchers. At first, you’d have options for multiple schools in most places, then the vouchers would cover less and less each year with you spending more and more out of pocket. Then, religious schools would in turn lower their tuitions (as they can afford to subsidize if it means indoctrinating new kids). The result is that families with less money would go with whatever the voucher covers, which would only be religious schools in more and more areas with tone. That’s the plan.
Louisiana is CONSTANTLY at the bottom of the nation in terms of their education offerings. Here’s one of those lists: https://www.newsweek.com/most-least-educated-states-america-ranked-1583019. These are craven theocratic fascists and they won’t rest until public education is eliminated.
I guess it is time to let them try thier experiment. I think we all know how it will get twisted and perverted. But Louisiana is probably already a lost cause. Maybe we should provide financial assistance to people wanting to move from a red state to a blue state… kinda like internal asylum. It should go both ways of course.
We’re been here before. People implement an extreme policy, the extreme policy makes life worse, then they say “the policy was good, but it didn’t work because it didn’t go far enough.”
Of course they will. But everywhere else we will know better.
PrivateReligious schoolsPrivate ReligiousRacist schools.Seriously, the private schools that are so prevalent in the South popped up after desegregation, and teach a wholly alternative US history.
Yeah - one of the most memorable news articles when I did research for my American childhood class was a mom taking a job immediately after her child’s school was integrated so she could send her kid to private school. I invite everyone in the states to check out when their local private schools were founded… there’s usually a clear pattern.
Well shit. Just looked up the local private elementary school thought to be the best in Huntsville, AL.
Lo and behold, founded 1959.
For those keeping track, Brown v Board of Education decision was declared in 1954.
It’s not surprising, but still upsetting.
If you want to get really mad, start diving into funding…
Public HS I worked in was one of the best in the state, until the 70’s….
Yea this is happening in Tennessee too.
