Posted on 01/22/2020 4:04:59 AM PST by Kaslin
I’ve been saying that for years, too. School choice is the silver bullet.
Trump will speak about this at one point or another.
He doesn’t seem to miss a beat.
I hope he has good people out there helping to get the black male vote to 30 percent.
Kanye campaigning with Trump would add maybe 5 percent or more, I think. That would help.
If school choice takes hold the competition will be so fierce that families will be flooding back to churches to qualify for enrollment.The teachers will also have more choice.
This is insanity.
The black vote isn’t coming.
The white vote will save Trump, or sink him.
The black vote came already.
78 percent of black men voted for clinton. Had that been the usual 96 percent, we maybe don’t win 2 or 3 states.
Black women are a lost cause.
I think black men can be pushed up to 25 or 30 percent.
IF Christie could get 20 percent in NJ, Trump can do it at the national level.
Not to mention, how many White swing votes will leave the R’s due to pandering to Blacks. A lot of White people are tired of this shit. Gain 3% of the Black vote, lose 5% of the White vote...genius!
Not insanity. You, whether you mean to or not, are taking the establishment position that the black vote is monolithically Democrat.
Ron DeSantis is governor of Florida due to the votes of approximately 100,000 black women who considered school choice their most important concern. Exit polling indicates that this issue was important enough to these voters that they voted against a black candidate and for Mr. DeSantis.
Compete for every single vote, don’t cede blocks of voters to our opponents. Mr. Trump won’t get a majority of either black or Hispanic voters, but he can chip away at the Democrat dominance enough to make a difference.
At the same time it occurs to me we have been “waiting for blacks to wake up” for decades.
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I used to feel that way too. Until a private Islamic school opened up in my state and the students received vouchers to go there. Use my tax money for an Islamic school? No way. Parents want to send their kid to private religious schools let them pay for it.
yet blacks in DC continue to vote for Democrats, even after they trashed the only choice that blacks had for their children.
Because Republicans are racist, doncha know!
For Dems, the teachers’ unions are more powerful than the kids’ parents.
For the Rs, the teachers’ unions are a 100% lost cause under all circumstances, but the parents can be pried away from the plantation under the right circumstances.
So my tax dollars could be used to send a kid to an Islamic school? Not sure I would like that. And if the federal government is subsidizing private schools then how long before they start placing requirements on what they teach?
This article was written by Milton Friedman in the late ‘60s.
And each year ever since.
And also pay taxes from which they aren’t benefiting? So long as they teach the 4 R’s, Reading, Writing, ‘rithmatic and Reasoning, they can teach whatever else they want besides. When they become teenagers, they can rebel against any indoctrination anyway.
Are you saying you wrote it? *grin*
No! Wait! I am not named after Milton Berle?
https://www.edchoice.org/engage/milton-friedman-the-father-of-school-choice-esas/
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I’ve been saying that for years, too. School choice is the silver bullet
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The ‘silver bullet’ is multi-stepped:
- Term. the DoEd (40yrs+ on the (R)N(C) TODO list)
- Elim. the illegal welfare state
- Elim. property taxes
- Return to ‘user pays upon service(s) received’
NOBODY cares about quality & cost like the one writing the check
The check-writers have no control whatever over public schools at present. Giving the parents say over where their kids go to school is the first step towards some sort of accountability for the educational bureaucracy. If they want the money to stay with their school, keep the parents satisfied that their kids are getting something out of the school, or they’ll go elsewhere and take the money with them.
Hugely popular idea with minorities, and the leftard establishment is dead-set against it. Based on the presidential debates, they want to bring back busing or some damned idiocy or other, or make sure all the kids are scared to death of global warming, to the extent that they give any thought to education at all. Oh, and keep affirmative action around for the few minority kids who might be college bound, and want to devote the rest of their working lives to paying back student loans.
If a two-house majority and state legislative majorities can bring about school choice, the Dems will not be able to scream “racism” loud enough to dissuade minorities from voting Republican. Trump can make it happen.
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