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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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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 ..
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@BrandNewMan Please cite a credible source documenting the percentage of time spent on those subjects.
@DogMan I agree that public schools should be equivalent across the board. Schools in wealthy areas should not be better than schools in poor areas.

Vouchers don't cover the entire cost of education at most private schools, except for some religious schools where they save money because they can get away with not paying staff a competitive wage.

The goal of the voucher system is to destroy public schools, because they facilitate economic mobility.