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Why are Democrats against school choice?

School choice has exploded across the country over the past few years — no thanks to Democrats, who are doing everything they can to prevent families from determining the best education for their children.

One Democrat in Georgia even left her party over its opposition to a school choice package that would have created $6,500 vouchers for students in poor-performing public school districts. Mesha Mainor, who switched her party affiliation to the GOP this week, was the only Democrat in the state legislature to support the bill. She spent weeks urging her colleagues to reconsider their position, pointing out that the bill would primarily help low-income minority students whose families can’t afford to leave failing public schools. In response, Georgia Democrats vowed to oust Mainor from the legislature, with state Rep. Josh McLaurin offering $1,000 to anyone who agreed to primary her.

Are Democrats trying to keep the poor kids out of THIER schools?
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ViciDraco · 36-40, M
I'm not a Democrat, but I frequently vote for them out of a lack of better options. But here is why I am generally against school choice

1. The goal should be to improve the quality of all schools. School choice avoids trying to fix problems in typically poorer areas.

2. Private schools very often have focus on religious indoctrination which doesn't belong in schools

3. School choice vouchers do not cover all expenses and circumstances involved in sending a child to another school. This typically means that poorer families with less resources are still stuck in underperforming schools while wealthier kids get to take advantage of the subsidized education. This leaves the struggling schools to struggle even more.

4. A lot of private schools are able to pick and choose their students and are able to expel them for even minor infractions. This causes a "selection bias" in the schools where some schools do better because they only enroll students who are likely to do better to begin with while public schools are required to take everyone. (This same issue plays out in the private prison system)
@ViciDraco So in other words, you're all in favor of statist indoctrination, gotcha.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ViciDraco We knjow, only the gubberment knows what children are permitted to learn in skool.

ViciDraco · 36-40, M
@NativePortlander1970 I approve of the concept of public schools and keeping public money exclusively for public schools. What is being taught and how it is being taught can be open for public debate. And there is a lot of room to improve schools, including more focus on critical thought over rote memorization.
JSul3 · 70-79
I do not want 1 cent of my tax dollars spent on vouchers.
This is a scam! Your $ will help subsidize the wealthy, who already send their children to private/religious schools.

There is a reason that people in rural areas are against it. Just how far will their child have to travel each day to attend their 'chosen school?'

The voucher $ won't be enough to pay for admission or books. Check the costs for tuition alone.

These 'private/religious schools' do not have the same oversight (if any at all) that public schools have.

Look at AZ. They are going bankrupt.
@JSul3 So then, you're alright with statist indoctrination?
JSul3 · 70-79
@NativePortlander1970 LOL!
Private/Religious schools indoctrinate students to their religion.

I went to public schools my entire life.
They did not rry to force me into any religion.
Separation of Church and State.
Thrust · 56-60, M
@JSul3

Separation of Church and State.

Lamest and most mindless and wrong canard. You should be embarassed to use such a tired cliche
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
"Are [rich] Democrats trying to keep the poor kids out of THIER schools?"

It's partly that, but it's also that Democrat politicians are in the teachers' unions' pockets.

The unions definitely do NOT want vouchers for private schools because tax money for vouchers would mean less tax money for the public schools, because there would be fewer students in them, and the unions can't have THAT, because that would mean less political influence.
Thrust · 56-60, M
@Thinkerbell teaching kids right is the LAST priority of teacher's unions. Look at that horrid shrew Randi Weingarten. Evil wench
@Thinkerbell Why should my taxes pay for private schools? Maybe your taxes should pay for abortions and gender surgery.
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MartinII · 70-79, M
In the UK, it's principally a matter of envy. The Labour Party, and some of its supporters, can't bear the idea that rich, or determined, or conscientious parents may be able to get a better education for their children than the state, left to itself, would offer them. Maybe things are similar in the US?
MasterLee · 56-60, M
They are against it because every child educated out of their echo chamber does better in life, as they get real education.

Government schools are actually indoctrination centers. They spew left wing hate and ideology. They don't present information 'anti Government big daddy' solves everything philosophy.
@MasterLee Exactly
We oppose school choice because it will destroy the public school system, one of the greatest achievements of the American experiment. Public schools have allowed students of all economic backgrounds an opportunity to get an education and improve their standard of living from what they were born into.

Replacing public schools with private ones will create a permanent underclass, which is what your billionaire overlords want - a feudal system of hereditary wealth with most of the country in poverty.

If you want to send your kids to private school, pay for it yourself. If you want my taxes to pay for it, then your taxes should pay for abortions and gender surgery.
@LeopoldBloom .. And .. putting abortion, gender surgery, and transvestites reading inapprpriate books, etc .. into the classroom is EXACTLY the issue with the public schools where it is happening ..
Because schools outside their control might not run the indoctrination agenda they want
Control the money control the curriculum.
Because republicans are in favor of it.
4meAndyou · F
Teachers Unions = big money, but they also represent Marxist/Socialist indoctrination. If actual FREEDOM in school choice were allowed, the Democrat/Socialist/Marxists couldn't brainwash our kids and/or groom them sexually.
Adrift · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou A butt in every chair means funding.
It doesn't matter whether they are learning or not.
I know a couple of teachers that quit because they say that they are too busy babysitting the kids with behavioral issues rather than teaching the kids that want to learn.
The parents and administrators don't back them up.
AbbeyRhode · F
The last thing the DemonRats want is a generation of kids who are not only taught the truth, but able to think for themselves.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
They'd rather spend money on drag queens doing lap dances for public schools...
Because it takes kids away from their statist indoctrination.

 
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