The teacher’s unions have been growing grounds for Marxists and are now hopelessly gone so far left that they’ve become an enemy to the Republic.
President Trump said days ago he would not fund schools that refused to open and that he would support instead sending the money to parents allowing them to choose however they saw fit to enroll their children.
In many public school districts, the funding averages $14,000 per student. Imagine a family of four, two parents and two school age children. Send that family a $28,000 voucher or payment card for school related costs.
Sounds crazy? It’s a good crazy. Watch heads in education unions and their Democrat Party Apparatchiks explode. What a beautiful sight it would be.
Yeah, I want to pay a ton in property/school taxes so some ghetto retards can destroy my school too.
They cannot; it is discrimination. Desegregation orders.
For those seeking options:
Advice regarding starting homeschooling from Illinois Christian Home Educators: https://youtu.be/ob8bNP-Zcxs
FAQs for starting home education: https://iche.org/resources/articles/frequently-asked-questions
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
To rescue their schools, voters need to start the process of peacefully “kicking” the unconstitutionally big federal government out of their local schools in November.
From related threads…
More specifically, President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, had clearly indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress the express power to dictate policy, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schooling — SOMETHING THAT THE STATES HAVE NEVER DONE!
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people, including community schools in this example, uniquely to the states and the people, not the federal government.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Justice Brandeis later put it this way about the "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
Again, the early states clearly left it up to voters to exercise their 10th Amendment (10A) power to run their community schools as voters see fit.
But since we see little evidence of citizens' 10A powers at work anywhere these days under the shadow of the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government, except when corrupt, desperate Democratic state leaders abuse their 10A powers to oppress the people to try to get rid of Trump, what happened to 10A?
Let's first blow the dust off of 10A by considering the Supreme Court's reasonable clarification of the federal government's constitutionally very limited powers versus the vast 10A power of the states to serve the people in United States v. Butler in the 1930s.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
But then we had a “little” scandal regarding 10A-protected state sovereignty. More specifically, using inappropriate terms like "concept" and "implicit," FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices scandalously effectively "repealed" 10A (imo) with the following politically correct statement in Wickard v. Filburn in the 1940s shown below,
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
In other words, desperate federal Democratic and RINO lawmakers are using corrupt Supreme Court's politically correct license to ignore 10A-protected state sovereignty, to use community schools as federal indoctrination centers so that students don't forget to vote Democrat and demand constitutionally non-existent federal entitlements after they graduate.
The remedy for corrupt, unconstitutionally big federal government…
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me
"The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Minority parents are crying out for school choice and the funds to make it happen.
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In the late 70s I enrolled my children in a Baptist church school. The Pastor/Superintendent informed my wife and me that if we ever accepted financial assistance, in any form, voucher, tax credit etc, from government, we would be told (not asked) to remove our children from the church’s school
I drove a church school bus as my family grew to pay a relatively small part of tuition and yes, I paid property taxes that supported public schools.
I now have six, well educated, Christian, adult children and have never regretted our decision.
In my opinion, wanting government money, admittedly your own tax payer money, is just asking for government interference