You think that defunding flunking public schools would be a positive way to promote the conservative agenda to the people of the US? It is after all, the people of the United States that we need to promote the conservative agenda to. The people whose kids attend flunking schools that conservatives want to take money away from. Money that would improve the schools and let their kids get a better education.And believe me, the kids who are NOT going to be homeschooled, who ARE going to be in the public schools regardles....are the children who also believe that if Bill Clinton were still president 9/11 wouldn't have happened, that Gore really won but Jeb stole the election for GWB, and the GOP hates minorities.
I know this, because I'm in the public schools, and this is what I hear from my students. But believe me, they are NOT learning it from me, they're bringing it from home.
That's right, they're bringing it from home. Home is where they also learn that conservatives means "people who don't care about us, who take money away from your school, so that the only people who will get a good education are the kids of the rich and powerful, who are all that people conservatives care about"...next thing you know, the kids of these people, who believe that conservatives tried to take food away from kids in school, will be talking about the rights of the proletariat, and spouting off Marxist quotes.
We have to find a way to prove to these people what we already know to be true, that the system is broken. To simply defund the schools, or to fight the implementation of what they all believe to be the solution to failing schools would be disastrous.