Posted on 07/10/2024 4:35:50 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Drive an hour south of Nashville into the rolling countryside of Marshall County, Tennessee — past horse farms, mobile homes and McMansions — and you will arrive in Chapel Hill, population 1,796. It’s the birthplace of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped found the Ku Klux Klan. And it’s the home of Todd Warner, one of the most unlikely and important defenders of America’s besieged public schools.
And yet, one May afternoon in his office, under a TV playing Fox News and a mounted buck that he’d bagged in Alabama, he told me about his effort to halt Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s push for private school vouchers in Tennessee. Warner’s objections are rooted in the reality of his district: It contains not a single private school, so to Warner, taxpayer money for the new vouchers would clearly be flowing elsewhere, mostly to well-off families in metro Nashville, Memphis and other cities whose kids are already enrolled in private schools. Why should his small-town constituents be subsidizing the private education of metropolitan rich kids? “I’m for less government, but it’s government’s role to provide a good public education,” he said. “If you want to send your kid to private school, then you should pay for it.”
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The response from voucher proponents to the resistance from fellow Republicans has taken several forms, all of which implicitly grant the critics’ case that voucher programs currently offer little benefit to rural areas. In some states, funding for vouchers is being paired with more money for public schools, to offer support for rural districts. In Ohio, voucher advocates are proposing to fund the construction of new private schools in rural areas where none exist, giving families places to use vouchers.
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Instead, it is going to take an act of God to get people like this to give up their beloved government schools.
If we cannot get the schools out of the hands of the progressives, we're finished. It doesn't matter what we do. This is where the indoctrination begins.
“I’m for less government, but it’s government’s role to provide a good public education,” he said.”
No, it isn’t.
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Or receive relief from that part of property taxes due to public schools for parents who enroll their kids in private schools.
After all, why should they have to pay for everybody’s kids to go to government schools.
Marxist indoctrination is child abuse.
Stop confusing RINOs with conservatives.
Conservative vs Republicans?
“Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s push for private school vouchers in Tennessee.”
We discussed this last night at a meeting here in TN. The problem is that the vouchers are “bestowed” by the government, so the government still will have ultimate authority to dictate what will be taught, etc.
The only option is for parents to pony up the money for their kids’ education, whether home school, Christian school, or whatever. Take nothing from the government because they would have control.
We are fighting about the hated government schools, MEANWHILE, SCHUMER WANTS TO ARREST THE SUPREME COURT.
As far as insanity goes, I think we hold the good cards.
This guy is completely disingenuous, but that is not unexpected in rural areas.
Anyone in his district can open a new private school. His REAL reason for opposing vouchers is that the local school system in his district is the largest employer and basically functions as a welfare system for white people.
Vouchers are more cost effective than public schools, for a variety of reasons.
Vouchers save tax money.
If there are not private schools to compete with his public school, his public school doesn't have to worry.
If his public school does a good job, it doesn't have to worry.
I don't understand how the author could have gotten that wrong unless he read something written by someone that didn't know what they were writing about.
Public school advocates are competition aversive.
I’m sure there is some of that going on (non-conservative republicans) but I am not aware of any major movement in any state, of conservatives divesting their children outwardly away from the government schools. There is movement, to be sure. But it isn’t anywhere near a majority.
The challenge is that of course, there is probably a lot of content in this article that isn’t quite true by means of omissions. Information that I cannot know to be able to tell what is missing. Omission is the media’s greatest strength.
However, there are many reps mentioned in this article, and they have been proponents of government schools and it does appear (I looked, separately) that they keep going on to win their elections, or at least, not lose them but for other issues not related to schools/vouchers.
So we have a lack of protests, a lack of a massive child removal, and a lack of losing elections identified by a linkup to getting the schools out of the hands of progressives.
Andy,
And leep,
What would you have me think? (based on the evidence)
Public schools focus is completely wrong. It’s all about how to treat one another and other social things. 100% for school choice. Lets apply some Darwin to the public schools and see what happens.
What I know for sure is that school choice has public schools very worried.
Conservatives are gimmedats, just like the ghetto breeders. We just differ on the kinds of freebies.
The lawfare that is happening against the SCOTUS is a direct result of indoctrination that happened in these schools. Every last person involved is indoctrinated.
There are good cards here, you're correct, and you're holding every last one of them. It is insane to think we can hand our children to progressives and then end up with a legal system that will not engage in lawfare against our judges.
"politics is downstream of culture" - Andrew Breitbart
Doesn’t a voucher cover the cost of the private school? The school has to get paid by some method. If not via our taxes, than how? Most aren’t teaching out of the kindness of their hearts, and there’s overhead.
Parent hands the administrator a paper voucher and hears, “Oh, thanks. This piece of paper, with no funds attached to it, will pay our utility bills and the teachers’ salaries.
And when any organization accepts money from the government in any form, the government has control.
You claim I am entirely WRONG.
Then tell me I’m right.
Which one is it?
“The only option is for parents to pony up the money for their kids’ education, whether home school, Christian school, or whatever. Take nothing from the government because they would have control.”
To put it another way, make it next to impossible for less-than-wealthy conservatives (as in most conservatives) to have kids, unless they dump them into government schools. Of course for Leftists and immigrants, they have what they want, so they can multiply like rabbits.
Bottom line is that there is no ‘perfect’ answer that also protects the society we live in. We keep doing the same and we’ll be wiped off the map in several generations, a process that is already well under way. Sometimes we have to hold our nose and accept that there is literally no option that is ideal - we either encourage children, or pay the price of not having them.
Oh well, I give the Leftists credit for their clever way to fight vouchers, by splitting the conservatives over the issue. We while we deserve the results of letting them non-breed us out of existence, I’m not sure that our grandchildren deserve to have to live with consequences.
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