You know, “school choice” sounded familiar and like I should look into it before I sent the children home with a hashtag, SPOILER IT IS BAD VERY BAD THE BALLS ON THESE BITCHES. It took several googles of “who funds National School Choice Foundation -ai” before the internet gave me everything I needed to know from Truthout.
The answer was: Some billionaire’s great-great granddaughter is making half a million dollars a year to convince parents to vote to send public education dollars to private school vouchers and homeschooling. The billionaire’s great-great granddaughter’s husband makes $42,000 to spend half an hour a week (I call bullshit) on “board.” And the Koch Brothers and Betsy DeVos and the Independent Women’s Forum are alllllll up in this shit.
So listen. “School choice” sounds so nice, and choicey! And yet it is bad, racist, and will bankrupt our public schools. It’s already started! The evil masterminds getting public school employees to distribute their public-school-destroying propaganda have some balls on them (and alllllll the money). And if you’ve got kids, get loud, and get mouthy. You can still be polite while explaining to people to GO FUCK.