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Originally Posted by widebody911

Which is why Republicans have such a hard-on for charter schools and vouchers; they want their kids educated, and to leave the rest behind to be wage slaves and cannon fodder.

Yes and no. The current way that schools are done is so bad that folks want charter schools so that some kids actually get educated vice indoctrinated or socially advanced. saving a few is better than saving one...and there has been no political will to fix them all by teacher's unions and political manipulators). You cannot teach kids when the classroom cannot enforce discipline or when much of the time is scent teaching "causes". Stop funding and controlling them at the Federal level and have states and local governments do the job. Things were much better before the Dept of Education.