re: #528 HappyWarrior

I agree with that. The problem is that many Republican candidates and voters seem to care about what you said below along with weakening public education and strengthening private schools via vouchers. I am not automatically opposed to vouchers for what it’s worth, however as a large majority of American schoolchildren attend public schools, we should be focused on making our schools a healthy learning environment and focus on public schools since after all our tax dollars fund them.

Vouchers are a tax cut, pure and simple. A targeted one, but a tax cut nonetheless. The beneficiaries are those people who have kids in private schools. Ergo, a tax cut for the wealthy.

Flexibility in choosing schools achieves pretty much the same thing, but favors poor people a bit more. Which is why the GOP supports measures such as jailing the (low-income) woman in Cleveland who tried to put her kid in the next school over. Because we can’t have educational opportunity if it benefits the poor!