One day, our kids are going to ask what happened…They’re going to ask how public education became a pipeline for religious indoctrination, privatization, political control, and profit.
And the truth is, a lot of people saw it happening. They saw the warning signs, the legislation, the money, the lawsuits. They saw the public schools being hollowed out in real time.
So the question is not whether we knew.
(We do)
👉The question is what we did.
Because “I thought someone else would stop it” is not going to be enough.
Share the posts. Show up to meetings. Call lawmakers. Talk to parents. Push back locally. Educate yourself and vote accordingly. Support the people doing the work.
Public education does not disappear all at once; it disappears when too many people decide the fight belongs to somebody else.
And then what?
What people are saying:
- Facebook User: yeah that
- Facebook User: Whoever posted this photo was clearly publicly educated because it seems to imply it is public education that needs to be stopped (which it does).
Rather than expecting someone to destroy public education, ONLY YOU can destroy public education. 🙌
- Facebook User: Facebook User ,it’s always the single Baptists who have never stepped inside a public school.
- Facebook User: Hopefully what will have happened will be a universal voucher system where parents get to choose what school works best for their child. With vouchers we can end the harmful effects of redlining once and for all.
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User So we’re making public policy based on hopes instead of evidence now?
- Facebook User: Facebook User so you would basically like no more public schools and no more “ choice”.
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- Facebook User: Facebook User all schools should be funded by vouchers. Government schools would also be funded by them, hence the adjective “universal.”
In America you can learn more about adjectives as early as second grade, or never, depending upon your zip code.
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden and Chile all have universal vouchers systems, and all but Chile outperform US in student achievement. Chile is close to the US, in which almost half the states have broad voucher programs.
Where is your evidence that funding schools based upon zip code – a proxy for parental income – produces quality results?
“Because we’ve done it this way since World War II” will be graded as an F.
- Facebook User: Facebook User lol.
- Facebook User: Facebook User ok. thanks.
- Facebook User: Facebook User NO. You ignorant, gross shitass.
- Facebook User: Facebook User if I’m a “gross, ignorant shitass” for the crime of thinking of ways – or advocating for known solutions – to improve education access and end decades of disparate outcomes based upon home address, then call me what you want. I’ve been called worse things by better people.
- Secular Education Association: Facebook User congratulations, this is a false comparison.
Those countries don’t simply hand public money to private schools under U.S.-style voucher laws. Many have national curriculum rules, inspections, stronger public accountability, weighted funding for disadvantaged students, and far tighter regulation than American voucher programs.
And Chile is not the flex you think it is. Chile’s voucher system is one of the clearest warnings about segregation, inequality, and weak academic gains.
So again: where is the evidence that U.S.-style vouchers improve outcomes here?
- Facebook User: Secular Education Association your apparently AI generated response assumes too much of my own position and advocacy. I have not advocated against improved transparency, neither improved accountability. Rather, I advocate for another layer of accountability – the best kind – which is direct parental choice, via vouchers. This introduces a powerful and proven “market mechanism” which the current system utterly lacks, and educational power brokers fear.
My argument does not rest on the Chilean application.
Nowhere in American life except K-12 education are our choices and options so structurally limited. From shoes and coffee, to cars, housing and healthcare, we insist on choice, and markets provide it. Markets improve our ability to improve and innovate.
America and American students do not benefit – in fact they suffer, and the schools do, too- when schools operate on a scheme of entrapment.
People who value education are eager to improve upon the status quo. Only those few beneficiaries of the current prevailing model fear change.
- Facebook User: Facebook User what is your resource for this information? This is what I found based on your statement. And does not support universal vouchers being a good thing. “Chile introduced a universal voucher system in 1981 that allowed students to attend any public or private school with a standard government voucher. This system was later reformed in 2008 with the Preferential School Subsidy Law, which shifted from a flat universal voucher to a targeted model providing 50% higher funding for low-income (“priority”) students to reduce segregation and improve equity.
Sweden adopted a universal voucher system in 1992, allowing families to use vouchers for approved private schools. However, international test scores in Sweden have fallen for two decades under this system, and it has been associated with increased segregation by social class and immigrant status.
Other countries mentioned, such as Colombia, implemented targeted voucher programs (like the PACES program launched in 1991) aimed specifically at the poorest third of the population rather than a universal system for all students. The Netherlands utilizes a system often described as voucher-like, where 70% of enrollments are in government-financed private schools, but it is distinguished by additional funding for disadvantaged students and a high level of public control to ensure a level playing field.” - Facebook User: Facebook User what a terrible, divisive idea. Let’s improve our Public Schools and let wealthy people worry about themselves
- Facebook User: Facebook User how condescending.
- Facebook User: Public education sounds like a great idea. We should start that soon.
- Facebook User: Odd that the people that are asking that question today are being attacked
- Facebook User: I suspect a lot of parents don’t want their kid exposed this this kink of sutf. “Public School District Took Middle Schoolers to a Drag Show Without Telling Their Parents” https://www.newsweek.com/public-school-district-took-middle-schoolers-drag-show-without-telling-their-parents-opinion-1776503
- Facebook User: If our kids have public education, they might ask this question, because they are ignorant about history, don’t understand how events unfold, and have been trained to have their beliefs handed to them.
If public education is finally eliminated like the dehumanizing scourge it is, then children will be glad that they were spared it, and if they want to know more about it they will be able to find out easily.
- Facebook User: Facebook User what a freaking joke.
- Facebook User: Vote out republicans!!!!!
- Facebook User: They turned communist and taught gender ideology so we shut them down
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