It's almost like they have been planning this for decades...

[Soph0571]

“We reject a one-size-fits-all approach to education and support a broad range of choices for parents and children at the state and local level. We likewise repeat our long-standing opposition to the imposition of national standards and assessments, encourage the parents and educators who are implementing alternatives to Common Core…”2016 Republican Platform. Emphasis mine.

This is objectively funny but also not funny at all.
Our kids don't need no education... give them reasoning skills?!?!?! Hell no.
I have the perfect neo GOP election slogan for 2022 'Keep them stupid keep their vote.'

[Buckeyeblue]

1. It's no secret that Republicans hate public education

Eliminating public education is one way for them to ensure that poor people stay poor.

That's why it continues to flabergast me when I see right wing poor people. That's like skipping to the gallows on execution day.

[hlthe2b]

2. We "latte-sipping elite and our damned edjumacation!"

We are all supposed to feel ashamed that we can spell and write complete sentences, don't you know?

Seriously, though. It is so sad to me to see whole generations equating education with something only the opposition party values.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. That video is super creepy.

[Bristlecone]

4. They'll wear it like a badge of honor

Frame it differently though. Ranked 43rd out of 50 and Ranked 48th in terms of Public Education spending. Per the data provided at the link

[Jon King]

5. Dooming their kids because China, Japan, India, rich people, are not wasting their time.

So the plan is to doom their kids to poverty because many of the jobs of the future will be high tech and green energy. The US will import young minds from India, Japan, China as needed. The wealthier American parents make sure their kids have tutors and are getting the degrees they need to compete in the future world.

These folks keep trying to own the libs at their kid's expense. The metro areas will continue to blossom into high tech hubs while these areas wither away.

[flying_wahini]

6. After the Teachers Strike a couple of years ago, North Texas had a flux of

Teachers from Oklahoma come here to get better jobs. This from an old article…

[link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-teacher-of-the-year-moved-to-texas-for-financial-stability/|
The average teacher in Texas makes about $52,000 per year but just next door in Oklahoma, educators are paid about $45,000. That pay gap is forcing teachers in Oklahoma, ranked 49th among states for teacher pay, and elsewhere to relocate to other states, creating a teacher shortage.


According to a 2015 study, Oklahoma loses about 13 percent of their teachers a year to low pay with many of them turning to out-of-state jobs, reports CBS News' Omar Villafranca. Teachers there entered their ninth day of striking Thursday over low wages.

[paleotn]

7. Overall, they rank low.....

but I'd bet dollars to donuts OK has a number of non religious, private schools where the children of the better off get a very good K-12 education. "Choice" is just code to cover their hatred of public education and the equality of opportunity it fosters.

I grew up in the southeast and spent most of my life there. It's always had a two and three tier primary / secondary education system. The venerated, old privates for the rich, along with the Catholic schools in the big cities...all near the top. The religious / racism based privates used to escape desegregation in the middle. And the public system at the bottom. For people I meet up here in New England enthralled by the low taxes down south, I tell them you get what pay for. The public system is grossly underfunded and bad. Very bad. So you'll end up having to shell out big bucks to get your kids in decent private schools. Why not stay up here where the publics are properly funded? In the end, you'll have to pay regardless.

[whathehell]

8. I've read that when desegregation happened in the South

many white communities simply created private schools to avoid integration.

Catholic schools, however, have been around forever and were definitely not, in the North where I attended them, practicing segregation.

[paleotn]

12. Not in the south either that I'm aware of....

and the Catholics were always towards the top academically. By religious / racist, I meant the protestant privates. When deseg. hit full force in the 70's and 80's, they popped up like weeds in the Nashville area.

[whathehell]

13. I think I understand you now..

You meant to distinguish the racist private schools from the Catholic schools. Thanks for the explanation.

[bringthePaine]

9. militant stupidity runs a dark and bloody course through human history

[Grins]

10. Before it was Critical Race Theory it was..

…Common Core. Just another meme to rile up the bigots and idiots that make up “the base.”

[themaguffin]

11. School desegregation is how the "religious" right was born, not abortion, or "prayer in schools"

When that happened, Segregation factories sprung up in many cities.