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The right screamed "NOOOO!! It takes parents!!! Not the government!!!"
Now with a pandemic they are screaming "Keep those government schools open for my kids!!!"
Tickle
(2,537 posts)parent who wants the "government" raising their children but they do want public schools open.
Education is primarily a State and local responsibility in the United States. It is States and communities, as well as public and private organizations of all kinds, that establish schools and colleges, develop curricula, and determine requirements for enrollment and graduation. The structure of education finance in America reflects this predominant State and local role. Of an estimated $1.15 trillion being spent nationwide on education at all levels for school year 2012-2013, a substantial majority will come from State, local, and private sources. This is especially true at the elementary and secondary level, where about 92 percent of the funds will come from non-Federal sources.
That means the Federal contribution to elementary and secondary education is about 8 percent, which includes funds not only from the Department of Education (ED) but also from other Federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services' Head Start program and the Department of Agriculture's School Lunch program.
Scrivener7
(50,993 posts)Give me my government funded childcare!"
Meanwhile the kids in the most competitive high school in NYC staged a walkout because the conditions in their school are just too dangerous.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)No vaccines either.
Hillary wrote a beautiful thing, and it was about caring for one another. So they hated it.
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)to be fodder for the cottage industry that still exists today. It's their entire world. I tired of it 30 years ago.