Recently, at a state Legislature meeting, state leaders made a number of decisions without first checking whether private companies had the necessary experience or requiring companies to meet standards or conditions. He has indicated that he intends to allow private companies to manage billion-dollar management projects. Take all possible measures to monitor the company's progress.

APR states that the companies in question have already failed to meet production deadlines and basic standards in many other states, resulting in billions of dollars in losses and programs directly related to the welfare and education of the public. We learned that large-scale state programs including The kids. Additionally, the company often relies on questionable business relationships with various religious groups to influence lawmakers, raising many questions about the funneling of state tax dollars to church-run businesses. .

If you're outraged by this, you hate “school choice.” Because that's what I just explained.

School choice, the biggest fraud ever perpetrated by politicians, is about to be on Alabama's legislative agenda, but ruling elites are once again trying to funnel taxpayer money into buying the luxury goods they want. trying to find out. In this case, they want their children's private schooling to be subsidized at top church-run academies while poor children eat cake.

I can't for the life of me figure out how this got to the point where it was being seriously considered, to the point where politicians were posting on social media under their real names that they supported this policy. How on earth do you guys, and I mean workers, not get mad at the thought of some yahoo in a fancy suit coming along and siphoning more money out of already cash-strapped public schools? Is it? So can we donate to the private businesses and churches that our children attend?

That little breakdown I posted at the top is 100% accurate. It's “school choice” in its proper context, stripped of all the flowery BS language.

Like their counterparts in other states, our legislators are directing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars (money we pay for the benefit of the society in which we live and work) to private companies that don't have to impose obligations. We are considering a bill to send to the Public schools are not held to the same standards as public schools, are not subject to the same degree of oversight as public schools, are not forced to adhere to the same hiring practices (and background checks) as public schools, and are not forced to undergo regular public audits. Like school.

And it seems like everyone just follows that?

Translate this to literally any other situation (prisons, roads, broadband, police and fire, human resources) and you would be okay with unmonitored, untested, unaudited private companies being contracted to do work in these areas. Please say that. fields.

I don't think so. You'll be screaming bloody murder, and rightly so.

However, some underfunded schools associated with poor communities have historically performed poorly on a variety of state and federal tests (ironically, private schools are not required to complete tests). Somehow you all agree. Giving tax dollars to private companies that are not monitored, tested, or audited is the way to go.

it's not. It's a scam.

This is one part of a long line of shady scammers who have spent their lives coveting the billions of dollars sitting in education budgets. They have dreamed of a day when they could legally siphon that cash into the bank accounts of their friends and co-conspirators, while leaving the futures of poor children everywhere in the gutter.

That's not an exaggeration. Because in addition to being a scam, this is also the greatest attack on poor children in the history of this country. Black, white, brown, etc. – if you're a child from a lower middle class family, you're going to be screwed over by “school choice.”

This is because “school selection” does not cover transportation expenses to the school. And “school choice” does not pay for free lunches. Additionally, “School Selection” does not include lab fees, field trip fees, or other expenses. In addition, with “School Choice,'' there is no need to pay for breakfast or exercise expenses.

In other words, poor children do not have access to “school choice.'' As usual they'll get the shaft.

But don't just take my word for it, do this. The next time politicians and “advocates” start blathering about the benefits of “school choice,” ask how a poor child's family will be able to pay for school. Make up the difference between tuition and tax breaks, how do you get your child to school without a car, who pays for gas, how do you feed your child, and if possible, should your child go to the lab? Please do not pay such fees.

you know the answer. We all know the answer.

It's a scam aimed at defrauding poor children.

Otherwise, “school choice” means actual choice. Your child can attend any public school in the county, including inner-city segregated schools, and transportation is provided for students receiving free or reduced lunch. And because we all know that poor students need the most help and benefit the most from better, more focused instruction, students on free or reduced lunch receive priority in admissions. be given the right.

But that's not what they want. They don't want to help the kids who need it most. They don't want to put necessary funds and resources into the schools and communities that need it most, where it would be most beneficial.

they just want money.

Because it's a scam.