I hate no child left behind, and I've seen it first hand.
But not supporting school choice (and vouchers) is more of the democrats keeping a critical voting bloc suppressed so they have no choice who to vote for. It's the same reason Mayorkas had strong words for Cubans fleeing oppression (and by the way has backed it up with strict Coast Guard enforcement) while letting 1.2MM illegal immigrants from all over the world come into the country. The former is much more likely to vote conservative because they've seen what terrible outcomes socialism brings.
You're a poor single mom with no education stuck in a shitty neighborhood, what chance do you have if you can't get your kid into a better school? NYC spends $30k per kid and the educational results are terrible. The public school system is failing our kids in many of our larger cities. When do you decide that more money isn't going to fix it? And this article acts like doing something positive for minority communities to garner more votes is a bad thing. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? If there's a way to help people up, shouldn't we do it?
And don't get me started on the NEA's role in keeping schools closed during the pandemic. I live close enough to liberal counties like Montgomery where the threshold went from "all teachers need to be vaxxed" to "all the kids and teachers need to be vaxxed" (which is completely unsupported by data). The NEA is taking federal money and using it to bolster contributions to their party while screwing over their constituency. Teachers want to go back to work - virtual teaching is harder and less effective.
And you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to the number of teachers. While the ratio of students to teachers has come back to 1970's levels it's hardly a crisis. And you have to know that private school jobs are preferred by some teachers - how does it help the situation to do all you can to limit choice?
In the 2017–18 school year, there were 3.3 million full-time and part-time traditional public school teachers, 205,600 public charter school teachers, and 509,200 private school teachers.1 The number of traditional public school teachers in 2017–18 was 12 percent higher than in 1999–2000 (3.0 million), the number of public charter school teachers in 2017–18 was 1,076 percent higher than in 1999–2000 (17,500), and the number of private school teachers in 2017–18 was 13 percent higher than in 1999–2000 (449,100).
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Black parents’ righteous fury at NYC public school failure
In what could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, middle-class black families in Queens are mobilizing against the city Department of Education’s routine acceptance of rotten pub…
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