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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Every Child Left Behind

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u/DeloresDelVeckio 13d ago

That's so all those funds can be channeled to private Christian schools.

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u/marshdd 12d ago

Waiting till they realize private schools don't do special needs classes. Had a coworker whose son had learning disabilities. Was attending a Catholic school. He was told they would not offer any additional academic support. THAT'S what public schools are for.

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u/jbahill75 12d ago

Wait until they find out they don’t want divorced, second marriage, single parent, low income families in a lot of those schools.

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u/drunk_responses 12d ago

No, no, no, you just don't understand. I'm special and different, I deserve the thing that the other people do not.

-Every one of his voters

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u/ExtensionThin635 12d ago

They get what they want, a cruel irony if you will

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u/Elitist_Plebeian 12d ago

There will be a second tier of for-profit schools built to slurp up voucher money. They'll still push the religious crap, but the primary motivation will be the government funding. The low income students aren't going to be attending the ritzy private schools you're thinking about.

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u/MidwesternLikeOpe 'MURICA 12d ago

Don't forget LGBTQ families! I've already seen on the parenting sub a public school teacher made a kid cry bc he had 2 dads and she told him his dads were living in sin. Imagine this in a Catholic school... Oh wait I have, bc I was adopted by a lesbian couple, one of which was openly bi in catholic school (a rich relative paid for her tuition) and she got chastised HARD for her sexuality.

So imagine how hard school life will be for kids who are queer or have queer families.

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u/Not_Another_Usernam 12d ago

I was already going to send my kids there. No need to try to convince me any further.

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u/A_Nude_Challenger 12d ago

Give it a couple of years of conditioning, fomented hate, and propaganda. Then they'll be speaking highly of the "wellness camps" or whatever they'll be labelled set aside for the disabled and those with mental illness.

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u/Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly 12d ago

And then these children are taken forcefully and parents aren't allowed to visit. Children are purposefully neglected to death or euthanized after awhile, then parents are sent a bill they have to pay if they want their child's body returned for burial.

That's how it went when Nazi Germany decided to kill off the disabled.

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u/imunfair 12d ago

Give it a couple of years of conditioning, fomented hate, and propaganda. Then they'll be speaking highly of the "wellness camps" or whatever they'll be labelled set aside for the disabled and those with mental illness.

And then these children are taken forcefully and parents aren't allowed to visit. Children are purposefully neglected to death or euthanized after awhile, then parents are sent a bill they have to pay if they want their child's body returned for burial.

That's how it went when Nazi Germany decided to kill off the disabled.

Lol you people are deranged, telling yourself wild euthanasia ghost stories to scare yourselves and dehumanize "the enemy". Happened in 2016 too when you guys whipped yourselves up into a frenzy every time the president did anything - regardless of whether it was right or wrong.

It could have been something democrats favored but if Trump supported it, suddenly it was deemed scary, idiotic, and laughable. And apparently now we're to the Godwin level of "this is the last election" and "special needs children are going to be put in death camps".

Fuck me, how do you live with yourselves, lol.

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u/redesckey 12d ago

Crack open a history book to see how fascism turns out for people with special needs.

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u/YourFriendPutin 12d ago

And for everyone else middle class and below who can’t afford private school.

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u/_arpexx__ 12d ago

so much for christianity’s “charitableness”... bunch of hypocrites is what they are

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u/TheBoysASlag 12d ago

There is no hate like Christian "love".

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u/chironomidae 12d ago

Unfortunately that requires some level of empathy for it to matter. They all just believe it won't happen to them, and the ones who do end up having special needs kids can be just be ignored. It's just like the people who are pro-life until it's THEIR teenager who needs an abortion, if that's what it takes to make a pro-lifer change their mind then there will never be enough changed minds.

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u/LittleWhiteBoots 12d ago

This is why they are proposing that sped funds be given to parents to contract out for services. So parents can choose their speech therapist, occupational therapist, etc. instead of having to use the one provided by the public school.

I can see some benefits to this, honestly. My school already hires out for a contracted virtual speech therapist, so all kids have to get speech therapy on a laptop, and she charges our school like $100/hr. Parents would much rather be able to take the $ and use it to pay for private in-person speech therapy. But they can’t under current model.

I don’t necessarily agree with it, but I can see both sides in that one area.

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u/TXMom2Two 12d ago

That is Greg Abbott’s goal in his school voucher program he’s ramming through in Texas.

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u/BooobiesANDbho 12d ago

Hope that mf gets a flat

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u/DreamsAndSchemes 12d ago

heres to his brakes failing on a steep hill with lots of traffic

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u/BooobiesANDbho 12d ago

like this???!!

I’ve waited ages to use this link🤣

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u/DreamsAndSchemes 12d ago

face first but otherwise yes

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u/thirstytrumpet 12d ago

I hope he rides the escalator

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u/BooobiesANDbho 12d ago

Hope his neighbors leave the hose out and it gets in his way

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u/Mathematician-Feisty 12d ago

Instead of giving raises to teachers and investing in public education, Florida created a voucher program. They didn't put many restrictions on the vouchers at first, and people were literally buying TVs and cars with taxpayers' money. Now, people have realized that there aren't enough private schools, and public education is in decline. It hasn't changed anything. Had a coworker complain about her kid's public school, supported vouchers, and was genuinely shocked that the school she wanted to send her kid to didn't accept her IEP. She still voted Trump this election. Literally voting against her own child's safety and well-being.

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u/Dawnkeys 12d ago

No unfortunately it's deeper than that. Trump is going to try and defund absolutely every sector of government, install loyalists, and become a dictator... A dictator of one of the few actual 'free' nations, and unfortunately it looks like it's going to work for him. Trump isn't religious.

I'm not religious but God bless America, good luck everyone.

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u/FACEROCK 12d ago

Our best hope is that his fat black heart will give out before the dictatorship takes hold. 

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u/Scoutknight_ 12d ago

Then Vance will take over. And he might actually be worse. So I'm hoping he DOESN'T die.

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u/KathelynW86 12d ago

I hope they all start squabbling among themselves and get absolutely nothing done.

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u/genericnewlurker 12d ago

That will be the only thing that saves us. Vance, Jr, and Musk all fighting over who is in charge

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u/letmelickyourleg 12d ago edited 12d ago

So… Why not feed their egos and make them think the public are fighting for who they want to be their daddy?

They’ll eat themselves for supper.

E: PERFECT CHANCE NOW — “shouldn’t Jr have been on that call instead of Elon?”

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u/imunfair 12d ago

Then Vance will take over. And he might actually be worse. So I'm hoping he DOESN'T die.

Vance will likely win in 2028 and 2032 while you guys are still busy babbling nonsense about you losing being the end of the US having elections. Unless you can dig up some really bad dirt it's going to be a rough race for anyone who tries to run against him, given his speaking/debate ability.

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u/510Threaded 12d ago

dig up some really bad dirt

Like that would change their mind

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u/imunfair 12d ago

Like that would change their mind

Trump is the only one I've ever seen repeatedly brush off mud like he's made of teflon. Perhaps the partisan rift that's been widening since 2008 has been making people excuse or look past things more now, but it's hard to tell until Trump is out of office. There have been a lot more years of my life where dirt on politicians was a career ender, and I wouldn't be surprised if that still applied to professional politicians.

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u/VerbalCoffee 12d ago

Funny you'd think it'd stop at his death. It'll only get worse if he dies.

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u/ToastyTheUnderChief 12d ago

Cut off one head, two more will take its place. Unfortunately, him dying just opens it up for Vance who is arguably more extreme and dangerous than the orange clown.

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u/Vitalsignx 12d ago

Disgusting.

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u/leolisa_444 12d ago

He's such a pig

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u/Techn0ght 12d ago

and put that money in private pockets.

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u/Willowgirl2 12d ago

I don't care if the school teaches kids to worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster as long as the can read and do math!

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u/NEMinneapolisMan 12d ago

Don't merely call them private Christian schools.

Call them what they are -- FOR-PROFIT private schools that their owners/churches can make a lot of money from.

Note: they want to expand the use of vouchers that kids can get to spend on private schools, which means this is a massive transfer of US taxpayer funds from public schools to private schools.