About time, too.
Wildly he goes on to describe the legislature's design as including "politicians policing our children's curriculum," as if that wasn't exactly what happens in public schools. He's also exercised about "book bans," which I certainly oppose, but which if anything are at least as much an interest of Democrats as Republicans these days. They only differ as to which books to ban, not whether to ban them (and also in that by "ban" Republicans usually mean 'not have them purchased by public resources like schools and public libraries,' whereas Democrats typically mean, 'prevent them from ever being published, or if already published revise them after the fact to comply with ideology, or pull them from publication').
This is actually a good reason to end public education in favor of a vouchers-for-all program: you can be sure that the books you want your children to be taught are in fact being taught, even if you are locally a minority politically. Moving to a 'better' public school district isn't always an option, given how housing prices have tended to track such things. Vouchers are a road out for the poor as well as for political minorities (and, potentially, other sorts of minority groups as well).
Plus, the public schools are mostly terrible. I've been so disappointed with the education received by my younger relatives. I think they basically now need the equivalent of an Associates' degree in remedial classes to begin baccalaureate-level studies. Competition would be a real improvement over the inescapable sewer that the public sector teachers have imposed upon much of working-class and poorer America. However much their self-image is one of lifting people out of poverty through education, the quality of these teachers' work is often the very thing that traps the poor in poverty.
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100% agree with what you posted
Greg
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