In an unwelcomed assertion of state power, the Texas Education Agency has implemented a “New Education System” in the Houston Independent School District, re…

  • @[email protected]
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    801 year ago

    This smells like a way for Republicans to drive people to home schooling and then cut public school funding.

    • ElleChaise
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      481 year ago

      Also helps raise more uneducated and poor voters to support the Republican party.

      • @Yawweee877h444
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        211 year ago

        Agreed. The uneducated are much easier to manipulate.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Worse. It’s part of the school to prison pipeline. So they are basically going to remove the right to vote from these students in the future.

    • @glimse
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      301 year ago

      Remember when a certain demographic was saying that every school shooting was an inside job by the left to push gun control? The question I always had was…who actually stands to gain from implying public education is dangerous?

      That’s right: private schools. And who was the secretary of education at the time these conspiracies were getting pushed? That’s right, Betsy DeVos - charter school proponent.

      That’s my counter-conspiracy. I don’t think it’s true, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than an anti-gun protest.