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Private school is a mistake and should be illegal. Same with homeschooling.
Finland banned school tuition, essentially ending private schools except for some that are functionally identical to public schools including operating from public funding.
The rich realized they would have to send their children to public schools, and suddenly Finland built maybe the best education system in the world.
Private schools still have entrance exams you need to pass and are seen as better and more prestigious versus whatever the designated public school for your area is. Public schools with a large percentage of non-white/immigrant students typically have horrible reputations and Finnish parents are often desperate to make sure their kids don't end up going to them
My understanding is that the hell-schools that Finnish parents are desperate to save their children from are better than the majority of schools worldwide, probably because the built-in advantage that parental wealth has on test scores just isn't big enough to safely and consistently keep rich kids in the private schools.
Yeah, I'm just relaying the general sentiment I've had the misfortune of hearing repeated over and over again over a lifetime of social gatherings where racist mostly middle class people are present
What ended up happening with religious schools? I've thought a bit about this topic and didn't know any non-socialist countries had cracked down on private schooling.
What an insane thing, don't they hate that gays are indoctrinating kids? Why would they give up an opportunity to rebrainwash a kid?
The goal here is to make discrimination against LGBT people legal and government sanctioned
I'm sorry, I won't let your kids enroll here/hire you/rent you an apartment/give you medical treatment because of muh religious freedums
Also I assume there weren't a ton of rainbow families trying to get their kids into the daycares run by the Catholic parishes that began this lawsuit in the first place. Some right-wing think tank operatives just decided to use this law to attack LGBT rights
This.
The goal is to strike down the Civil Rights Act. They'll probably overturn Obergefell v. Hodges first, and then they'll go for the Civil Rights Act.
The Democrats probably will respond by just making the status quo ante continue in the states they control. If it happens before the midterms, they'll have no hope of contesting it in Congress, and even after the midterms, no matter what they will be some number of Sinemas or Manchins or Fettermans short of 261 votes (60%).
And in the more immediate term, this is about government funding, and the free rein of reactionaries to sap state and federal money/contracts without oversight or requirements.
Yeah I just think it's interesting how easily the rhetoric falls apart
it makes sense if you contort your brain into rightwing mode: children are the property of their parents and this is a restriction of lgbt parents' property rights
From your lips to Comey-Barett's ears. It's absurd how far they're going in efforts that are self-defeating and show of their own kool-aid they're drinking.
Every day I become more sympathetic to the League of Militant Atheists
But those families would still be expected to pay their taxes, which would make its way into the pockets of the schools denying them access.
Doesn't seem like it should be a difficult decision, but then again it's the Supreme Court we're talking about.
Who won the bidding war?
I would really like a real time website that shows each time any judge is bribed, threatened or blackmailed.
People would loose sleep watching all the new notices pop up all the time.
Said it before and I’ll say it again….must….resist….Reddit Atheism…..
fuck Sam Harris and the rest of those traitors in becoming Christoid neocon apologists.
reddit atheists were always correct when talking about american christianity. the problem was that some of them focused on brown people on the other side of the world instead of the bigger and more present threat at home
the backlash to reddit atheism from normies also failed to focus on the bigger threat, in favor of being personally annoyed, because the megachurches and dominionists weren't on reddit.
Calling it now, it's going to be a very bad decision.
This will almost certainly go through, reminder of the case that went 8-1 (aka two liberals signed on in agreement) that said outlawing conversion therapy was unconstitutional on the basis of free speech. (In reality it was something 2% more nuanced about requiring strict scrutiny due to viewpoint discrimination but in reality that means it's declared unconstitutional with extra steps).
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