Posted on 03/09/2021 4:46:10 AM PST by Kaslin
After 2020, Americans are coming to terms with the fact that the United States is splitting into two different countries culturally and politically. The red-blue divide is a divide between free states and counties and increasingly repressive and authoritarian blue states and counties.
As the conservative professor Eddie Zipperer quipped on Twitter:
1980s Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Russian and China don't have that."2021 Moms: "You should be thankful you have freedom. People in Michigan and California don't have that."
The freedom divide is particularly clear in the area of education. Republican states and counties have been more likely to open up their schools with safety measures, while Democratic regions, under the thumb of corrupt teachers' unions, have kept brick-and-mortar schools closed. Even more stunningly, the blue states, cities, and counties keeping students from schools are also the states most likely to block financial access to any educational alternatives. It is the free states in 2021 that are leading the way in moving forward with legislation to increase educational freedom for students. As the unflappable Corey DeAngelis of the Reason Foundation constantly repeats, states "should fund students, not systems."
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The education system is run by 2 entities 1) Teachers Unions, 2) Progressive Activists. Neither of whom are going away any time soon.
“The education system is run by 2 entities 1) Teachers Unions, 2) Progressive Activists. Neither of whom are going away any time soon.”
Actually, it all stems from parents, who effectively don’t give a crap, since they budget their lives on having ‘free’ schooling for their kids, and the schools fully understand it.
So the schools know that even parents who ‘cause trouble’ for the schools are simply blowing hot air, because, at the end of the day, the parents will still dump their kids in these ‘free’ schools, as they have a lifestyle to maintain, and that is their top priority.
Hence, the schools only get worse, year-by-year, worse and worse. Nothing will change, because, once they pulled-in the parents, they won.
There are many places where there is no alternative and the parents honestly don’t have the material resources to stay at home and home school (and sometimes they themselves simply don’t have the educational foundation todo it). And don’t forget that parents who send their kids to schools for which they pay are also paying for the public schools...and they have a right to be getting something in return.
Trump and Betsy DeVos worked very hard to expand charter schools and parent choice, which of course is one of the reasons they were hated. Trump in fact had a plan to attach the money to the student, at least at the federal level (public schools receive lots of federal dollars) and essentially give the families a grant, payable to the school that they chose, so that they would have school choice and it would offset the fact that their tax dollars had been paid out for a useless public school system.
This Covid farce has shown exactly how useless and unnecessary the public schools are, even in the eyes of the teachers themselves. And how much contempt the system and the teachers have for the students who have to attend them.
We are NOT two countries! We should be coming to terms with the fact that this one country is occupied by and ruled by the left, and our side has no strategy to reverse that.
These union types don't represent the majority, but they are organized, and ruthless, perpetually aggrieved individuals.
When is the real America going to become aggrieved and aggressive enough to overcome these minions in the field?
What national figure will take this on as a challenge and organize participation in the election process to push these union types out, or at least reduced in proportion?
The education system is run by 2 entities 1) Teachers Unions, 2) Progressive Activists ...More precisely, teacher's unions are run by "progressive" activists. It's all one.
And teacher's unions are central to the wider "progressive" war effort, not just one more group infiltrated.
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