Here Are The People Destroying Public Education

Conservatives hijacked public education in Arizona and it’s already a massive disaster. School privatization is siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars to corporations and right-wing grifters like Charlie Kirk. The scam is rapidly spreading to states across the country.

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[BruceWaynesaysLandBack]

Voters rejected the system 2-to-1? Politicians forced through their business slop? Such a shock

[Dysiode]

It boggles my mind that the courts can just completely nullify voter choice. Judges are too damn powerful.

[ChiliForEveryone]

As an actual teacher from the other side of the world, my blood boils with rage. Solidarity from a third-world country teacher

[joshuahafer]

I have taught in Arizona public schools for the last 8+ years.
I have seen the requirements to become a teacher fall from needing a college degree in education, to completing a certification through college, to just being enrolled in college.
I have moved districts twice already because I could not make a living in PUSD or DVUSD while also getting more pressure to stay late, take on extra responsibilities, for no money.
I have seen the standards for students lowered from a 60% needed to pass, to a 37.5%, and now down to a 12.5% if you just stay after school for 5 days at the end of the semester.
This entire time we have ranked last or near to last in all metrics for education while hearing about how we as teachers don't care about students if we aren't willing to work for less.
Last year was going to be my last year, I didn't sign my contract without any plans for a new job. I was lucky/blessed enough to find an online public teaching position for this year and next.

[nerdfatha]

I'm an Arizonan parent. I knew things were bad, but I didn't realize how bad. We tried a Charter school for one year for my oldest child because they were being bullied. It had nice new facilities and the principal seemed very welcoming and sold us incredibly well on it. Once the school year started, though, it went down hill fast. Teachers quite at an astounding rate. I think they only had half the staff by Thanksgiving. The principal was sacked and classes had to be combined so the teachers that stayed had classes of 40-50 students. Because a lot of the curriculum was originally specialized to individual teachers, whole subjects were dropped. For a year my kid did not learn Science or social studies. By the end of the school year we were able to switch to a different district because we had moved houses and my child is back in public school.

[veganismyname]

The enemy of good is the belief that "everything will be ok" and "everything is getting better". No, since I graduated high school, education has gotten worse. Teachers are paid less.

[kiltedcripple]

This is the kind of thing that needs to be an exposed, repeated issue in every election cycle. Run on these issues!!

[dragonmuffin]

We have voted out Ducey, and I believe Hobbs has released her new budget not very long ago, where she is take the money allocated for the program back into our public schools. After vetoing the proposed budget from Ducey.

[agluebottle]

I live in New Orleans where there are ZERO public schools. They're ALL charters since hurricane Katrina. They are a nightmare and the thought of my son going through them keeps me up at night. Let what happened here be a lesson to everyone in this country, "school choice" is a lie and a grift.

[seancoyote]

I used to think they wanted to drag us back to the 50's....little did I know it was the 1850's

[eatright]

Bruh. Charlie Kirk outright detests federal/state government, but accepts state funds for this "private school". God, this is mind numbing hypocrisy

[dfolz]

For being so against indoctrination conservatives sure do a lot of it

[mom]

Thank you for keeping Devos in the spotlight. She is awful.

[sheilabush]

Fine you want to send your child to a private religious school then you should have to pay for it. Just like it’s always been. Send your kid to a catholic school you pay for it. Our government shouldn’t have to pay for religious schooling.

[grimaffiliations]

Rural Americans hate these voucher programs because unlike rich conservative suburbanites, they can't afford private school

[sergegainsbourgii]

Private schooling doesn't equal better schooling. And there was no public schooling during the founding fathers' time. This is about revisionism & money-grabbing public resources/assets/money. Privatization is the modern-day enclosure movement.

[vxicepickxv]

This is a concerted effort to create an obedient permanent underclass.

[mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Think about it this way, privatization is solely a push to increase profits! They don't care at all about the students!

[CreationSGame]

All I want is for my kid not to be talked into being a different gender than they were born with. I want it to be completely their choice. And I don’t trust public schools to create that environment.

[Noobslayar]

This is fantastic reporting, keep up the good work. People need to see this.