Teachers Union Knows better than Parents what is good for their children????

[Dill]

(07-13-2023, 08:24 PM)pally Wrote: In the last 12 years, the state of Ohio under 2 Republican governors and Republican majority statehouses went from having the 5th best public schools in the country to having the 24th in the country.  Over $1 billion dollars was diverted from the public schools to a private online charter school.  They went bust leaving Ohio taxpayers on the hook and the public schools way short of cash.  The states with the lowest education rankings in the country are red states.  I doubt that is just a coincidence.

So true. Former Confederate states have remained among the lowest ranked for a century now, since educators began gathering and keeping stats. That was true when they were Democrat states, and then, after the Dems backed civil rights full on back in the '60s, when they "went red." 

The next two decades are when the battle over public ed really got organized. Segregation triggered a push for private schools and home schooling, and control over the curriculum where possible regarding history and science. That amorphous entity known on all RW news sites as "the Left" had kicked God out of the schools and was indoctrinating our children the wrong way--with godless evolution, secular government, sex ed., and accurate history. That's a battle over ideas that goes back to Galileo and Bruno. 

But Republicans are not a problem only in red states. 

PA had a Republican governor from 2011-15 and he cut a billion dollars from the state ed. budget.

That is still wreaking havoc in our system, as it forced PA universities to down size and raise tuition,
pushing more students out of state for college or deciding not to go at all. Then as enrollments drop,
more funding is withdrawn in an erosive cycle.