XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-11 13:47:34 +0000, Pretti dumb said:   
      
   > On 2/10/26 9:09 PM, super70s wrote:   
   >> In article <10mfcch$2ugse$14@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Pretti dumb  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Well aren't we 2 cute by 1/2.   
   >>   
   >>> On 2/10/26 12:36 AM, super70s wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-02-09 23:59:47 +0000, Promises Promises said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Thomas Kane, an education expert at Harvard, believes that the national   
   >>>>> gloom about education is overdone, partly because the three out-   
   >>>>> performers show what is possible, just as earlier periods of improvement   
   >>>>> in Massachusetts, Florida and Tennessee underscored the power of   
   >>>>> evidence-based policies and meticulous execution.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> “"States around the country have a lot to learn from what Mississippi,   
   >>>>> Alabama and Louisiana are doing,”" he said.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "We liberals need to wake up to the reality that we are being   
   >>>>> outperformed   
   >>>>> on education, opportunity and racial equity -- supposedly our issues. As   
   >>>>> recently as 2019, blue states had better average test scores than red   
   >>>>> states, after adjusting for demographics; now, red states are mostly   
   >>>>> ahead. We used to say that education was the civil rights issue of the   
   >>>>> 21st century, and if so, we should be ashamed that by that metric,   
   >>>>> Mississippi Republicans are ahead of California Democrats. If we care   
   >>>>> about kids, we must be relentlessly empirical, and that must mean a   
   >>>>> willingness to learn from red states."   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Kane said something you don’t expect to hear from a Harvard professor:   
   >>>>> "“I   
   >>>>> hope that there are lots of governors that are looking at Mississippi and   
   >>>>> saying, ‘Look, I want us to be next.’”"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Are you fine with states giving $7,000 or more of your tax money to   
   >>>> mostly already well off families to privately school each of their kids?   
   >>>   
   >>> If they're as well off as you claim, it's more likely "their" money as   
   >>> opposed to "your" money. Your argument overlooks that those families are   
   >>> already subsidizing the system through taxes without using it.   
   >>   
   >> Well even some Republicans who represent smaller counties in my state   
   >> are against these school voucher scams because it's taking funding from   
   >> the public schools where they are.   
   >>   
   >>> Universal choice isn't about handouts—it's about returning control to   
   parents   
   >>> and letting competition drive better outcomes for all kids.   
   >>   
   >> If there's "competition" like a horse race that means there are winners   
   >> and losers, there shouldn't be any losers when it comes to eduction.   
   >> Every child should have the same opportunities.   
   >   
   > Voucher programs don't inherently "take funding" from public schools in   
   > the way critics claim. The money is allocated per student, so when a   
   > child leaves for a private option, the public school no longer has to   
   > educate that student, freeing up resources for those who remain. In   
   > fact, many states with vouchers (like Arizona and Florida) have seen   
   > overall public school funding increase alongside them, thanks to   
   > competition driving improvements and efficiencies.   
      
   Sounds like a lot of propaganda from the Christian nationalists, who   
   organized this campaign to use public money for their private schools   
   and are targeting every red state they can.   
      
   > If those well-off families you mentioned are already paying taxes but   
   > opting out, vouchers just return a portion of their contribution to   
   > follow their child, rather than forcing them to subsidize a system   
   > they're not using.   
      
   In my state both the poor and the rich pay 10% in state and local taxes   
   for every dollar they spend, and there's no state income tax. So I'm   
   immune to your "only the rich pay taxes" spiel.   
      
   The governor is a Republican dick though and pushed for the voucher   
   program, even without any auditing of the income of the families   
   applying for it. Now they're trying for "universal vouchers" in an   
   attempt to privatize education and completely dismantle and defund   
   public schools.   
      
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