• calypsopub@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s racism, pure and simple. In my hometown, rural south, the schools were forced to integrate in 1973. The next year, a private school opened and magically only white kids were allowed in. All the talk about quality of education and school choice boils down to this: conservatives don’t want their kids to be in the same building with black and brown kids.

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      11 months ago

      Its even worse, honestly.

      They are adding in Christian doctrination to the curriculae, and also privatizing public schools by trying to make vouchers for charter schools the norm.

      This will impact all races, because its targeted at the poor and middle class.