Muda69

Again Dante? What does it really matter?

A weak argument. Not all non-government schools are affiliated with a religious institution, you do realize that? And as long as government doesn't deem to withhold taxpayer dollars from one or more specific religious institutions (i.e. "We the government will only provide tax dollars to Jewish schools, the rest can pound sand.") then it shouldn't fall a foul of the establishment clause. Just admit it Dante. You and other government education zealots don't want the status quo upset because it could mean less money in your pocket down the road.

How Unscientific Covid Policies Are Harming Birthing Mothers and Their Newborns https://mises.org/wire/how-unscientific-covid-policies-are-harming-birthing-mothers-and-their-newborns

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/24/republicanmeltdown-trump-convention-400039 Yep, that's pretty much it. For both side of the uni-party. More reasons to vote for a non uni-party candidate.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/california-apocalypto/#slide-1 Yep. California has basically become a hellhole, brought to fruition by progressive fantasies.... err policies. Let it be a real-world warning to other states. We can no longer afford the old mantra "So goes California, so goes the nation."

Bingo. But as long as the aging Baby Boomers are in control of American politics and culture they will protect their best interests at any cost.

No Shirt, No Service https://reason.com/2020/08/25/brickbat-no-shirt-no-service/

The First Night of the RNC Offered a Full-Throated Defense of School Choice https://reason.com/2020/08/25/the-first-night-of-the-rnc-offered-a-full-throated-defense-of-school-choice/ Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.), in one of the better speeches of the convention's first night, outlined a powerful argument for why parents should have a greater say in their children's education. "I don't care if it's a public, private, charter, virtual, or a home school," Scott said. "When a parent has a choice, a kid has a better chance." The GOP's embrace of school choice feels a little bit incongruous considering the party's turn away from freedom on so many other issues—from immigration to trade—and the Trump administration's general lack of concrete policy goals. So much of Monday's programming was dedicated to titillating Trump's base of supporters that Scott's argument about educational choice as an opportunity for all families to achieve the American dream may have been lost in the noise. But with many traditional public schools remaining closed in response to COVID-19 and working families forced to consider alternative arrangements, now is a great time to talk about school choice. For anyone disheartened by the Republican Party's turn away from its traditional appeals for smaller government and greater individual responsibility, tonight's RNC suggests maybe that light has not fully gone out.

So in K-12 education my tax dollars should only go to educate those children in my community that attend traditional government schools. What is the logic behind that? Shouldn't I as a taxpayer and member of the community be primarily concerned that these children are receiving a quality education regardless of the venue?

My thoughts exactly.

Teachers’ Unions vs. the Poor https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/teachers-unions-vs-the-poor/ The DOE may never open the schools at all this fall. Who knows? The head of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, claims his squad won’t go back to work until it can be proven that every person entering a school building — everyone from children to visitors — has tested negative for the coronavirus. This is a fanciful goal and suggests that school employees alone are entitled to a level of protection that not even hospital workers enjoy. Mulgrew’s cries of “safety” are likely a pretext either for leveraging more goodies for his highly paid crew or to enable his teachers to glide on with the greatly reduced workload they enjoyed starting in mid-March. No recognition of the 1.1 million public-school students in the city as even an interested party registers in anything Mulgrew says. Still, Success Academy students will do relatively well. Many DOE students may find that they are essentially taking correspondence courses this fall, as many of them did last spring. “School” for them means getting tossed a packet of Google Docs materials each morning while their teachers watch TV or head for the beach, but at Success Academy every student has been issued a new Chromebook and instruction will take place face-to-face on Zoom calls, with occasional breaks. The quality of online learning is impressive. Nobody at Success Academy is using the pandemic as an excuse to loaf. This is full-strength pedagogy, within the constraints of remote communication. But only the lucky students who were admitted to the system via lottery have earned places at Success or the other charter schools. Other fortunate parents whose kids are in public schools in New York City and all over the country are “podding up,” as the neologism goes. A friend in well-shod Westchester County says a group of half a dozen or so parents has hired an excellent tutor, at a cost of $60,000, to teach their kids this semester in person, in a rented space. Westchester already has punitively high real-estate prices and property taxes, and no parent writes a check for $10,000 without a second thought, but in America’s bastions of the prosperous, sacrifice on behalf of one’s children is a deeply ingrained value. If the teachers’ unions block learning, wealthy parents will find a workaround. The longer the schools stay closed, the greater the gap that will open up between America’s most and least fortunate families. A moment’s contemplation about what each group looks like ought to make you cross: Black families are disproportionately to be found among the less fortunate, and not a lot of them can come up with an extra $10,000 for something they always assumed would cost them nothing. There exist stark divides between rich and poor, between white and black — and the teachers’ unions who refuse to go back to school are making those gaps worse. Educators are often to be found at demonstrations, waving a placard for this or that progressive principle. Yet their current policy is to inflict disproportionate pain on America’s struggling classes. Will they practice what they preach, or is all their marching just for show?

I believe you are confusing the word "racism" with "bigotry". Two different things according to many..............

A/C is still a luxury today.

On the flipside contraction candidate '4A' Frankfort lost to in-county rival 1A Clinton Central 20-16. Third consecutive victory for the Bulldogs over the Hot Dogs. Frankfort's losing streak now stands at 22 consecutive games. It was also a nice win for hall-of-fame coach George Gilbert's return to the Clinton Central family. Also interesting is that Sunday afternoon Clinton Central announced they are moving to e-learning to for the next two weeks due to a covid outbreak, and all athletic events have been cancelled. So now the 1-0 Bulldogs won't be able to play another one of their rivals, Sheridan, on 8/28.

Ok. What do you believe are valid criteria for a parent(s) to not have their child(ren) attend a traditional government school? What are not valid criteria?

So to you school choice is akin to racism. Got it.

Just luck I guess?

Links, please. Your complete and utter disdain for empowering families to have real choices regarding the education of their children is noted. And it's understandable, maintaining the government education near-monopoly keeps you, and others here on the GID, employed.

A Vote for Joe Biden Is a Vote for a National Mask Mandate, Says Biden https://reason.com/2020/08/21/a-vote-for-joe-biden-is-a-vote-for-a-national-mask-mandate-says-biden/

But not a real fur coat, that's cruel.

Americans Rightly Tune Out the Democratic National Convention https://reason.com/2020/08/20/americans-rightly-tune-out-to-democratic-national-convention/ There was a Democratic National Convention?

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