Hes saying don't take from the poor(public schools) to give to the rich(private schools).Unless he did that its not hypocritical.You can be rich and still support the poor. Nothing wrong with giving opportunity but not at the expense of other poor children who will suffer from public schools being worse because funding was taken from them to give to private schools.Cooper didn't send his kids to private school at the expense of making public schools worse.
If you want options on public tax payer money -- there are Charter Schools. Some of the top performing charter schools in the nation including Raleigh Charter are located in North Carolina. There is no reason to be handing out vouchers to parents so they can send their children to private Christian religious schools -- which are the huge majority of private schools in North Carolina. And did I need to mention that these private Christian schools do not need to adhere to any type of state schooling standards -- they basically can teach the earth is flat, evolution does not exist, and all people of other religions are evil without any oversight. Nor do their teachers need to be credentialed (certified) or even have education degrees (or any degree at all).
Yeah, we know that you want to keep the flow of information and knowledge from being disrupted. That's your whole M.O. about Twitter. You want your voice to be the only one anywhere.
Its not about the schools, its about the students and parents. If he supported no vouchers for the rich, you'd have a point. But he's saying the opportunity given to the rich should not be for the poor. It'd be like saying I can afford a particular type of food (steak) but we shouldn't use tax dollars (SNAP) to allow the poor to buy steak, that's not right.
Not all the poor though.Id be all for it if it was for all kids but tax payer paid vouchers takes from public school funding making it worse for the majority of kids.
It should encourage schools to compete for students - through better teachers (pay) and more efficient management and services. But to be clear, now we're arguing the merits of school choice, which I agree is more positional and subjective. My intent was only to point out that a person who sent their kids to private school did/does not want the same opportunity for those who cannot afford it.
No but instead of using tax payer money to fund abandoning of public schools, just put the money into making hte public schools exceptional for the people who live in that area. Suddenly the right cares about the poor and getting handouts haha. Hand out tax payer money to move them to a fancy school but cut funding for welfare and foodstamps? I dont get it.....School is already being offered for free..... if it is sub par then fix it. Wealthy always get access to better things they can afford..health care...food...education..GOP champions this cause by cutting social spending and using the bootstrap line. Wealthy get better health care but does not bother the right to issue vouchers for health care...
He does not want to do it at the expense of making schools worse for the majority of students. I'd agree with a voucher system for all making schools compete for the voucher and a few public schools for kids with disciplinary problems but if the main educational system is public schools money shouldn't be taken from the majority of kids to give to a few imo.
Whenever I talk to my lefty friends about this, I say "well, I am favor of a public option, you know, like you guys wanted in healthcare/Obamacare." So if people want to choose the public option, they are free to do that. As far this "let's put the money in public schools and fix them first" approach, it has logic but it has worn off after decades of alleging to do that. The teachers union is winner and the students not so much. I am done with it. And so of lots of others. Plus the schools are unsafe and they spend a disproportionate amount of time helping young children decide which part of their bodies they want to cut off when their time comes. Done.
Health care is not the same as education... health care is completely private for the most part. The idea is if you are poor you have zero health care. If you are poor you still have free education. So the two are not the same. Also there is no public school policy where teachers spend time discussing cutting off body parts of children so turn off Fox news.... if you are not happy with the public school you are free to pull them out which I am sure you did, but did you require the government to pay for it even though you had a free option? Poor people do not have a free option for health care or food or living..thus social welfare to help (yes the system aint perfect). I have not heard any poor people complaning about trans issues being forced on them in public schools like Fox thinks, they complain about shitty resources and teachers.....can be fixed if both state parties put aside politics.