Billionaires' Shocking Plot for Rural Schools

Nebraska politicians caved to billionaires, passed a controversial school voucher program, and pissed off Nebraskans. So the people got a measure on the ballot to overturn it. Now they’re on the verge of an improbable victory to save public education in a deep red state.
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[@X139T]

This is why we should have NO billionaires NOT ONE

[@CosmosFlow]

@@X139T how can Americans remedy it? Every last one of us.

[@SamBroadway]

Division between church and state.... Most of these private schools are church-based

[@GrabASpriteB]

While I have a lot of conservative views and I live in a very red state, things like this are what is making me vote blue this election year. The radical conservatives behind this are insane. Many of them grew up in the 50's and 60's so they know first hand how much taxpayer-funded services benefit the people from education to buying an affordable home. In the end, it's all so they can line their pockets at the suffering of people; children no less.

[@darianbarber3763]

I wish you luck, I've lived in both a deep red and deep blue state and I feel this election is going to be really hard for the center right. In concept the right supports the same view, but in practice it's so extreme it's almost treason. I respect you for questioning your party, as people on the left should do so too.

[@frankthemousepie]

I think we can all agree money in politics (Citizens United) was a huge negative accelerant to the breakdown of democracy. Shocker /s

[@frankthemousepie]

​@@darianbarber3763 there aren't THAT many actual Democrats anymore. The tent is so wide it takes up 80% of the political spectrum. I don't know anyone voting blue who is an actual Democrat, I'm a leftist myself. So most don't question our party because we don't have one! 🙃

[@bryanreed3559]

Betsy Devos is an awful individual.

[@nline2blast722]

Do you know her personally?

[@reesericdotci]

@@nline2blast722actions speak loud enough

[@Michael39158]

Ditsy DeVos has been in the public eye long enough for us to know that she fights only for her own kind: Born Rich, Entitled, Privileged, White, Far-Right, & Uptight. She has ALWAYS been part of the problem, an activist for the Elite.

[@skankhunt3624]

​@@nline2blast722she worked for us, so yes, we know her very well.

[@Michaels1059]

These private voucher programs have three underlying goals: 1) Profit above anything else, including above quality education. 2) Control the kinds of education to ones beneficial to their own political ends. 3) Force those who aren't selected into their programs (typically but not exclusively poor, brown, and / or disabled) to accept limited education that pushes them into low wage occupations. It's about robbing the public of money, critical thinking, and class mobility. All so those in power can have unchecked free reign. It's a pinnacle example of bankrupt social morality.

[@zacharmstrong7807]

1. People wouldn't send their kids to schools that have bad education if they had a choice. 2. This gives parents the choice on where their students should go. 3. Public schools are literally the worst thing for our kids and everyone that owns a home is forced to pay for those schools regardless of if they have children going to them. 4. The public school system in America is really bad and they have no reason to do better because majority of people are forced to use them and pay for them.

[@CosmosFlow]

@@Michaels1059 THIS.

[@skankhunt3624]

​@@zacharmstrong7807so why wouldn't you just fix the public schools instead making all education for profit?

[@Michaels1059]

@zacharmstrong7807 1) Public schools wouldn't be do bad if they got the funding they deserved. 2) Having said that, if private schools want public dollars, then they shouldn't be allowed to deny any student admission. But that is currently not the case, so most of the taxpayers are paying into a system they can't benefit from. 3) Watch again the whole bit in the video about fly by night grifters. The unregulated private school systems prey on un/misinformed parents. 4) Parental choice should not supersede the child's right to a quality education. Private schools can and often limit how much their students learn because it doesn't align with their political goals. 5) At the end of the day, given the high failure rate of for-profit private schools, this ultimately robs our children of years of education they can never get back. You'd be surprised how many kids from these for-profit schools graduate only to find their schools did not prepare them for college or adult life. Remember, private & for-profit schools are not in it for your child's education. They're in it for money and anything else that helps increase their profits.

[@nedkent5239]

Yep and then they can teach kids their own fictional history!

[@Yourmomma568]

The problem with vouchers is that most private schools still cost more than the value of the vouchers. So regular people still can't afford it, it just means that already wealthy people, who are already putting their kids in private schools, now get to tale their money out of the public school system and reduce their tuition bill.

[@giantstuffedduck982]

FUCK YEAH NEBRASKA! spent some time there and I loved the people and they deserve way better than what fucking voucher programs can offer

[@wsams]

I know, people are awesome in every state.

[@BOZ_11]

since being a billionaire is boring, why don't we confiscate their wealth and have them work 12 hour days?

[@cdevidal]

Do that and you'll fund the government for about nine months

[@azzv.kuskatan]

So you want them to move to Europe, thank you in advance 😂

[@ReasonNotFightFlight]

LOL, absolutely.

[@cardrivingdude]

@@azzv.kuskatan Why would anyone leave the most lucrative market in the world? We can tax billionaires whatever we want and they'll stay here and take it with a smile. Know why? Because they wont be able to make the same money anywhere else.

[@MrKillswitch88]

Make them work blue collar jobs like unloading trucks in 110-130 degree heat.

[@kendallsmith1458]

What are health care, education, & prisons? Things that should not be for profit.

[@cdevidal]

Churches are non-profit. I'm okay with church-run health care and education.

[@albongo3949]

Right, also corrals for people clearly. Herds need management no that’s what all those do

[@EFFbriskethead]

100%

[@paulgalligan29]

Churches are non-profit. I'd be okay with church-run health care and education.

[@cbdevidaljk1]

So churches could run more healthcare and education. They're non-profit. I'm okay with that.

[@psychfred]

Billionaires are evil.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Watch Adam Conover on banning billionaires. We should support that.

[@Joslor]

Private school are already for the wealthy people so why our tax should go there ?

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

that's not always the case there are affordable private/religious schools granted since govt. got involved in Ed cost has increased for ex my dad paid 50 cents a week tuition to attend Sacred heart K-8 school in East Boston from 1964-1973

[@DrAJ_LatinAmerica]

No. Not always. Many times they are just children of hard working automotive plant workers or tiny mom n pop company owners who want their children to have a better opportunity and education. Especially if you live in a big city with crappy public schools. Many friends in the Detroit area don't want their kids to go to Detroit public schools. They drive their children an hour away to gain a better education in a better environment. The system is not perfect, things need to change.

[@bjarkiengelsson]

​@courtneypuzzo2502 So your father was incredibly privileged. Makes me wonder who he knew in the system to get that sort of treatment.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

@@bjarkiengelsson no he wasn't he was a working class kid his father was a wedding dress pattern cutter/phone operator in Stolen cars division and his mom was a waitress

[@cdevidal]

Why should our tax go there? So that non-wealthy people can _also_ send their kids there. Not everyone believes public schools are healthy.

[@patriciaadams4171]

WISCONSIN HAS BEEN SUFFERING FROM THIS CRAP FOR YEARS, CAUSED MANY TEACHERS TO RETIRE OR QUIT

[@07wrxtr1]

Good!! Let them quit.

[@hereforthecomments258]

Maybe they should fix the school? Nope, must be a billionaires fault.

[@mist1373]

@@hereforthecomments258 fix the school with what money exactly? if you watched the video you would know that funding that could go to public schools is being allocated for these private school vouchers so they literally don't have the money to "fix the school" like you're saying

[@kvltgirl]

What Scott Walker did to Wisconsin is unforgivable

[@cdevidal]

Retiring and quitting, proving yet again that government cannot compete with private sector jobs for pay and quality. The efficiency of the DMV married to the compassion of the IRS.

[@gypsy5445]

Keep voting red, this is to be expected.

[@ReasonNotFightFlight]

2-party system is an illusion of choice: Vote locally against the party system through efforts such as ranked choice. The Dempublicans are getting us nowhere.

[@annepowers3775]

A good example of our congress being for sale

[@cdevidal]

Since they're all so corrupt, let's reduce government

[@CosmosFlow]

@@annepowers3775 And dual citizenship with Israel. Chew on that one.

[@afterthestorm221]

Don't public schools have enough to contend with? Haven't we learned from charter ? why would you wanna create yet another cherry picking vacuum of public funds?

[@oneofus6924]

What's Classy if you are Rich, but Trashy when you are Poor? Getting Money from the Government.

[@harryyoseminy7623]

Having as many children as possible with as many women as possible

[@lasercorn2399]

Programs like this are being tried in Arizona and it has proven to be an abysmal failure. But that won't stop Republicans from keeping their rich friends from making a few extra bucks.

[@Brian-tb1op]

Any change will be a failure until a successful model is given by the free market. Our Public schools are failing. My dad worked for a private for profit college that offered $30k (B average in grades to qualify) in tuition savings to make the cost lower than attending a state university for the same degree. I’m looking at enrolling in WGU which is a flat $7,500/semester (2 semesters/yr) for unlimited credits obtained during that period. My friend completed his English degree for $15k in one year and I’m planning on doing the same. I think that the school voucher system probably needs to be further regulated to ensure some outcomes but should not be repealed. I think there are positives of private industry if done correctly. Inner city schools are horrible. If a family wants to homeschool there kids, why shouldn’t they help home schooling parents? $100k per year is not much in dense cities LOL. I live in SF and with taxes and rent being so high. Why shouldn’t I get $7,500 per year from the school voucher to help me teach my kids? Man I’m really BALLING LOL off that. Fk this video.

[@Brian-tb1op]

@@lasercorn2399 a rich person pays $200k in property taxes and a person in an average American home pays $4-10k a year in property taxes. Who stands to benefit more from school choice?

[@tetedur377]

Except that per capita, the Demonrat party has always had more millionaires (and billionaires) than the Republican'ts.

[@tetedur377]

@@Brian-tb1op One of my sisters got one of her master's degrees from WGU. Same deal.

[@lasercorn2399]

@@Brian-tb1op How rich?

[@wsams]

I saw the churches building schools when I was in school myself in the 90s. I feared the worst, and apparently it was worse. I knew exactly what the churches were up to because I grew up in it but was lucky to have gone to public schools.

[@AnonymousMusing]

This takes money away from public schools. If people want to send their children to private schools, they should pay for that, not tax payers.

[@RandomYTCommenter]

Do you also get your the tax dollars back that you paid for public schools that are currently failing the children? Didn't think so.

[@MercilessGuitar151]

​@@RandomYTCommenterwe privatized in Arizona and we dropped to 50th in the country in education, so it obviously is not working.

[@bjarkiengelsson]

​@@RandomYTCommenterWe don't need to. Because public schools aren't siphoning our tax money away to their billionaire deans wallets.

[@SamuraiKage-iv3ow]

​@@RandomYTCommenter they are defunding schools. Public schools are struggling and failing by design. It is not bc the public school systems are incompetent or incapable, but bc they are systematically being defunded to turn education into another industrial complex. When are we going to wake up???

[@MercilessGuitar151]

​@@RandomYTCommenterbecause they keep cutting education funding. Stop doing that and fully fund the schools.

[@emiliog.4432]

The continuing transfer of wealth. These policies will affect all working people and the poor. Everyone should be outraged. Here in Tennessee, the governor is pushing hard for school vouchers. The wealthy have the money. As you can see, there is plenty of money to fix our public school system. Billionaires rather spend their money on enforcing their will.

[@joevsyou]

Happen here in ohio. You take your kid from public school & get a voucher, Public schools as less power to hide their scores compared to private schools. Even if a kid never shows up, as long as they are enrolled, They get automatic F but yet still got to show it.

[@CosmosFlow]

@@joevsyou scores were enforced by George W Bush, a real a$%hole. He called it No Child Left Behind. Devastating.

[@RaidenKozuki-x8t]

This is just billionaires stealing taxpayer money with extra steps, and being held unaccountable as well!

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

I smell evil from these billionaires

[@earlestes8649]

I smell evil coming out of public schools and what they are and are not teaching our children!

[@kn7671]

The Right wants religion in schools because they believe that will enable them to program more children to become Conservative voters without the oversight of the state education board. In the end, this is a long play to enable Oligarchy in the USA.

[@tetedur377]

That's because you're a commie.

[@raycosman824]

They wouldn’t back it if they couldn’t make more money.

[@fieryrebirth]

There is no such thing as a good billionaire, otherwise they wouldnt be billionaires

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

This is what Reaganomics was always meant to Do.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

From the poor to the rich. The picture of the funnel was merely upside down.

[@kreiner1]

I remember sitting at the table (seen not heard) listening to my grandpa talk about what the results of trickle-down economics were going to be. At least he's dead and didn't have to see it come true.

[@jessejamez5985]

No. NO. WTF! - - - A.C.C.O.U.N.T.A.B.I.L.I.T.Y. - - - - - - A.C.C.O.U.N.T.A.B.I.L.I.T.Y. - - -

[@Phosfit]

Taxes paid by the public going to private business. How tf is that allowed?

[@estarr86]

it's going to childrens education

[@murfpike187]

Because private businesses own our politicians

[@Ugfromumantman]

Huh. Been living under a rock have you?

[@freedomfighter4990]

It's allowed because in red states, too many people have been brainwashed by Fux News into believing that all teachers are progressive Dems who have too much political power in 'Murica because of their union & they all want to teach your kids to be "woke". But you, patriot, can circumvent that by putting Repubs in charge who will pass laws to let parents siphon money out of the evil public school system through "vouchers" they can use to send their kids to private schools. As of 2022, there were 49.6 million students enrolled in the US K-12 public school system. None of these crackpot conservatives will admit that their privatization schemes, even if they'd had a 50 year head start, will EVER create a private school market big enough to educate even half of those 50 million public school kids. All they really want is to defund the public school system & leave everyone who's not a rich Republicon stuck with home schooling their own kids.

[@commonsense8334]

They make it sound like it’s all good for everyone but it’s not. This is how class warfare is fought now.

[@enkilm]

Whenever a billionaire offers money towards vouchers,that means that there are ways to make money from it and not altruistic and they are a mostly dishonest and corruptly discriminatory.

[@azzv.kuskatan]

That's how Finland works and it's doing great, it's the US who have too many rich people without limitations.

[@timetowakeup6302]

EBT

[@aarwala91]

I see a lot of comments along the lines of “you should ask why parents wouldn’t want their kids in public schools”. I think this ignores that there are public schools that are sought after in some areas… our system ensures that there is not a level playing field even among public schools. Some of them offer fantastic opportunities for students… but most of the rural schools, or schools in more impoverished urban areas don’t get that kind of funding. They instituted vouchers in Arkansas, currently 7,000 a year for tuition assistance. The good private schools cost a heck of a lot more than that. So most people are still going to have no choice but to send their kids to a public school despite all of the language about these bills being about parent choice.

[@honeybear278]

For me as someone from europe to see this huge undermining of public education.. i don't know what to say

[@skylerlightning4620]

USA government had never care for it education system as public education is complete joke in US.

[@Jasmin.M-hz5ty]

It dosen't matter is school in private,public,or state ownership.Becouse schools are created only for one thing,to "teach" children fake history,and to indoctrinate them.I to am from europe,from croatia to be precise.And i have see it,how croatian schools,are teaching fake history to children.Where they have discribed creation of Yugoslavian Kingdom as something "evil",and liberation of Zagreb and Yugoslavia in 1945,as "ocupation of evil partisans".And after war against serbs and SFRYugoslavia was finished,new fake history was written once more,and media is used to brainwash croats,and spread hate against serbs.And this is just one part of theys lies,the oldest lies are written by germany,vatican,and nordic history scool.Where they have portraited everything slavic,as part of some other nation.And even so their are many real historical records,from various induviduals,from various times,that speaks of slavs from ancient past before greece and rome.Thouse books are banned,destroyed,and ridiculed on wikipedia as "pseudo history",so that nobody coudn't learn real truth about the slavs.And same story goes for native americans,from north,messo,and south america.And this is supported by the mainstream historians,that tells only lies.I have see one video from Thomas Sowell,that man has sed and supported so manny lies about slavs,that i coudn't stay calmed.And they are persistant in theirs lies,even so germans has admited in 1980,that fake slavic history was written ,and forced upon slavs on Berlin congress in 1890.They have even write book about it,and donate it to serbian SANU academy.Lots of things were discovered in 1980 just about slavs,but people don't know it,since lies of mainstream "historians",are stronger than real truth.

[@Nhkg17]

It's not enough that in the US schools in poorer areas are underfunded, thanks to stupid laws (money is distributed according to the amount of taxes collected in a given district). This will make it worse.

[@OakKnobFarm]

I live in NH and they started a voucher program a few years ago. The school budgets are destroyed and property taxes are rising fast

[@war2thegrave]

Why? Progressives don't want to send their children to public school?

[@james3452]

So...if they kill the voucher program there; will your property taxes go back down? NNNNOOOOOOOOO

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

No, they'll keep going up in order to pay for the Voucher Program

[@war2thegrave]

@@OakKnobFarm found the flagger!

[@St1ckY72]

@@james3452 you from New Hampshire? Or Nebraska? Just me, or does noone understand that taxes haven't gone up, the housing market has been ripping people off for years, forcing EVERYONE'S property value to skyrocket, therefore, the same 2% tax rate looks like more.

[@johnsuarez1404]

It's so hard to watch these because they make me so angry I start to heat up and sweat. I hate corporations so much.

[@war2thegrave]

touch some grass

[@digitalreject3233]

Same here.

[@t-revyourengine4967]

Politicians in AZ have always struggled to make education a priority but since the voucher program kicked in they found all kinds of fraud associated with it. And AZ has fallen to the absolute bottom in terms of education since.

[@liftedmarco4976]

Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for poor

[@geegaw1535]

This amendment is on our ballot. I voted NO in. support for it. If parents choose to send their children to private schools they should be able to afford all amenities needed to their ideals. Public schools need the funding because others can't afford a private school. It's their choice. Just like there is a separation of church and state. Churches pay no taxes. VOTE NO ON THIS BILL. It is something that wouldn't pass on the floor so they send it to the people to vote. VOTE NO

[@war2thegrave]

I guess you don't support the underprivileged being granted the means to secure a quality education for their children. Can't have too many 'brown' children in the private schools, can you?

[@wyvern723]

I live kn a blue state, and there is still a massive push by outside groups to allow charter schools in our state. They've already pushed massive cuts to our schools. I'm terrified of what this could mean for our kids.

[@sejones97]

Can't be much worse for your kids than what they push now.

[@toulousegoose1150]

Depending on the state charter schools don't even have to have licensed teachers!

[@crusader4536]

Education should always be open and free not put behind a pay wall that's just ass backwards

[@oliviao2238]

The situation with the schools is becoming ridiculous; it's disheartening that this remains an issue.

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

Education is a necessity, we shouldn't privatize necessities. Some things shouldn't be about making money. We need to stop allowing greed to infiltrate every aspect of our lives.

[@estarr86]

public education is harmful, private education works

[@MrLexanderluther1986]

I'm getting sick of these rich ppl. I'm getting to the point, I'm eagerly waiting a video titled "Billionaires dragged from their homes and..." Like, what the fuck is it going to take?

[@kendallsmith1458]

French Revolution 1790

[@drillsergeantus]

This is happening in Kentucky right now but fortunately we get to vote on it

[@crystalhouse15]

I find your videos very impactful and helpful in opening my eyes to issues that affect us Americans. Where would I go to find a job or position in your organization?

[@dontmatter966]

The people who approve the school vouchers coming out of tax dollars are the same people that don't think their taxes should go to student loans

[@alaxt.6215]

The tax payer has put their foot down. You're playing a risky game in trying to circumvent what the tax payer has already demanded.

[@mr.d7237]

I support public education. With that said, too many public schools are nothing more than glorified daycares. We need radical new policies to improve public education.

[@edvvardcash6109]

It would be nice. Schools and government organizations in general seem to be heavily bloated with administrative staff these days it's ridiculous.

[@ThaKandyLady]

Because of being gutted by stuff like this. They are directly related.

[@tetedur377]

@@ThaKandyLady No, you've definitely got the cart before the horse. Private schools in the modern era are a RESPONSE to the crappy, bloated, autocratic public schools.

[@Meenaia]

I feel the same way. I would even go so far as to say some public schools are just dangerous. Every day I would feel like I was forced to go to a part time prison and it took me decades to recover from the abuse. Now, me and my whole family are scraping together funds to put my son in a private school because the public schools here haven't changed at all.

[@edvvardcash6109]

@@Meenaia homeschooling isn't bad. You can still utilize public resources like libraries as needed for what you may not have

[@Jakeurb8ty82]

The real fun will be when a wave of consolidation comes and these private institutions will end up ran by a handful of monopolies that inevitably will have to 'cut costs' and 'streamline.' The end result will be worse.

[@0-0-0-2]

Republicans keep giving billionaires unchecked power

[@azzv.kuskatan]

Exactly

[@dmacktm]

Democrats too. They are all bought and paid for. They are trying something like this in Kentucky. Rand Paul is behind it, so it can't be good.

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

Because they keep giving them unchecked money. Sometimes they're one in the same even

[@sejones97]

And democrats keep killing their competition....

[@merekcook573]

Student in Washington talking. My state has made steps that produced the effects of increasing funding for charter schools and cutting funding for low property income areas. The effects have been disastrous. Dozens of teachers have been laid off in our district. Average class sizes have ballooned from 20 to 30 people. Some teachers willingly quit to pursue other job fields. Citing job instability. It's bad

[@CosmosFlow]

@@merekcook573 the wealthy are hitting their goals.

[@sonjafritsch8804]

Private: make corporations rich. MOT HELP TEACHERS PR CHILDREN

[@morgengabe1]

I'll never believe Kristin Christensen isn't 11 years old

[@orionpax5012]

Vouchers is the new Discrimination

[@estarr86]

every employer in America discriminates, that's what job applications and interviews are for.

[@azmidlyf]

We are dealing with this in Arizona as well.

[@TheQuietPartisLoud]

This is very much a top down movement, but it has appeal to some families, and those behind it freaking know it. Religious families wanting religion is schools is one thing, but another is the degree to which public schools do, in fact, suck. This coming from a public school teacher. Full inclusion, and non-discrimination are wonderful, and important things. The only issue being that our public schools themselves are already disenfranchised. There are not enough KINDS of schools (shoutout public alternative schools!) to adequately match the (correctly) high level of inclusion, And so, families see and hear these stories about students being left in the wrong environment. And those stories are real. We see it in mental health, violence, and mistreatment of students with exception needs, both those with disabilities, and gifted/talented students. So? What do these billionaires do? They construct this narrative that somehow??? Privatizing??? Education?? Will be the perfect solution, and make schools function "better" "again". And that shit actually hooks so many families. We need to stop the privatization of education, and keep it as a public utility. And then foster greater diversity of schools themselves through community effort. Organize schools, and funding such that class sizes and building sizes can be however small a giving community needs to meet the needs of their diverse learners. Make is so there actually always is a place for students to be. Even if we DID "Leave no child behind" we still need to PUT them somewhere right for them.

[@bendershome4discountorphan859]

We all voted this down before the same old argument dumber people to swollow it

[@VernaWatson-o9y]

Thank You for pointing out which states are doing this 😢

[@Andre-qo5ek]

with all that lobby money.... those lobbyists could have just made a school fund and limit it to a membership for their "tribe". but like always ... it is not about doing a thing for themselves, it is about power over others.

[@NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy]

With these ideas being similsrly found in aspects of Project 2025, i find this maddening. Billionaire agendas aside, average people dissatified with the state of education being willing to defund public education are the same people who, when folks dissatified with the state of policing suggested we defund the police, thought the very idea was ludicrous. Occasionally, it isn't just that i disagree with what these people have been convinced they want, and more so that i hate their lack of ideological consistency

[@gregbolton1480]

Sick of Billionaires yet ? Still wondering why majority of Americans hate Billionaires ??

[@Osaiken]

Another example of apathy and ignorance letting shit policy slip through

[@marleymars2223]

Cant believe i didnt know almoat anything about this until super recently... a rich country is one where the rich go to public school, not where the poor go to private schools.

[@toulousegoose1150]

The poor can't afford them even with vouchers. This does give families the option for charter schools, which are usually free but with uncertified teachers and no special ed requirements, but that's about it. If you're poor you can't afford private school even with a voucher.

[@kn7671]

This is the Rights ploy to go around the separation of church and state.

[@markxsavage]

The better question… why don’t parents want their kids in public schools?

[@GrabASpriteB]

Like many conservatives seem to do, they play on fear. Parents fear that public schools are getting worse, so in the moment, they are inclined to the idea of putting their children in a private school for free with false expectation of a better experience.

[@albongo3949]

Hit the lottery to change the world will be the future of “change” lmao

[@CarrollLiddell]

As an Australian, this conversation is a bit strange, because here our entire nation's education funding model is like this. Money and resources are tied to the student regardless of what school they go to. Our education system has flaws but as I understand it, it's not as bad as US schools. With your "whole language learning" and terrible maths modelling systems...

[@MonieThu]

I mean, what aren't they plotting?

[@AlthosWTF]

I'm curious if the vouchers got opened up to every student and any school private/public. would it be better.

[@robinkabel6258]

Probably because they don't teach their crap there!

[@floopajoopa]

I feel so bad for the kids 😥 and the teachers

[@tabithan2978]

lol, start a Union drive of Private school teachers.

[@Ads-o7x]

Nebraska is going to shit

[@dvdv8197]

Greed is not the desire for more, it's the desire for more at the expense of others.

[@SamuelStorrer]

I think vouchers emerged because of the frustration with public education. My issue is that I don’t think either side really understands the underlying issues. The first problem, why are we forcing high schoolers to be somewhere they don’t want to attend. My issue with the term teenager or summer vacations, we are coddling what are actually young adults. A 16 year old should not only have the right to not attend high school, but they should be compensated for performance and taught the reality of painful consequences early on, as in the taste and horror of failure while also teaching the ability to tackle that failure head on is key to being even remotely successful. Long run on sentence but I hope it makes sense. STOP CALLING 15 year olds KIDS.

[@bltvd]

How about poor kids do online school and rich kids go to private non tax funded schools?

[@dwinklet]

We pay the taxes… why is it such a bad thing to have a say in how I want my child to be educated? If you don’t have kids, you also should have a day in whether you want your dollars allocated for public, private, or charter schools.

[@toulousegoose1150]

Nobody is saying you can't send your kid to private school. You should not be allowed to use taxpayer money to do that.

[@JOYR1234]

oklahoma has done the same thing and it's bad

[@cp021882021882]

Join your local RCA branch.

[@AndrewGraziani-k7d]

Reagan 101. Starve the baby, blame the baby, privatize the baby!

[@cutback443]

this channel does GREAT work 99% of the time. Every once in a while, you sneak in a video chuck full of propaganda... This video, is NOT one of those

[@Gfish17]

Back in the 90s my parents sent me to a private Christian school and preschool before that. Thankfully I got out.

[@solyluna1778]

Investigate WHO the US is in debt to, and why en by WHO the Fed was created and ran exclusively by, from inception...

[@markbullen5989]

Wow.

[@ominouskelp1522]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED... well not that shocked

[@estarr86]

parents who care about education want school vouchers and to defund the "department of education"

[@pagandragon830]

I'd sure like to see you guys cover the unwanted casino in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I can't find info on it and everyone I talk to is against it yet the city passed the bill. We voted but I can't find the results of that vote. (Edited for spelling)

[@alspedone3848]

It's time to revolt against big business and the rich all across the country and economy!!!!!

[@Rene-uz3eb]

Vouchers is so fd up. Like provide a decent service already. Like instead of taking money away from the schools, fire the teachers if they are no good. Stop teacher welfare, the kids are the important part here to protect, not the teachers.

[@sorensje]

i remember when Louisiana was ramming vouchers thru after katrina (read Shock Doctrine) and when the republicans found out that people could use the vouchers to go to islamic schools they threw a fit and said "we thought it was understood that when we gave people vouchers these were to be used for private christian schools!"

[@Angry-Romper]

I am confused, can someone clarify for me. Im confused by the language of "School Voucher" When I googled it, it sounded like a school voucher was essentially a set amount of money that a parent can request to use as a means to cover schooling costs. If that is the case, is the issue here that when the parent receives that money, that money can then be used for private schools instead, and resulting in that money not going towards the needs of a child in public schools? (I understand that even if this is the case, that boils down to tax dollars funding a private education) Or did I misunderstand that, because the way its being explained here sounds like set amount of money does not go to the parent, but instead goes to the school (For some reason?) Is it a funding that the School can apply for in preparation of accepting a student?

[@IM.citizen]

Might have been nice to get Sen Wayne in the vid. Im only about 2 30 in Dungan isnt a bad choice but from the top Im already worried about that aspect of the reporting. Theres definitely a buch of bad stuff going on with the money for privatization but it would have meant more coming from a Senator that was finally collapsed on it because the state hasn't been holding up equitable choices.

[@custos3249]

Weird time to live when literature like Great Expectations and Oliver Twist once spurred real social change, yet today it's all about pushing us back to the conditions that inspired the same books.

[@bloodspartan300]

This video isnt the flex you think it is... more options for schools is better than less options

[@kreiner1]

Oklahoma to 😢

[@BenG33]

The problem with schools is our tax money goes to teach kids sports. Sports is a lotto system kids should be working together so that all succeed. Sports is a luxury not a necessity for tax services.

[@Videoguy890]

I live in Chicago and the public schools have and always will be Horrible! I wish I could get vouchers to not support this failing system.

[@checkmateexpressllc3795]

We must get money out of politics. It the only way to stop this madness.

[@SonyaRitter-u3y]

Your ideas are always fresh and original. Thank you for the inspiration!😎🐋💞

[@jm823]

I'm for it let public monies go to private schools as long as those kids in public schools can attend those private schools.

[@dylaann]

Great work as always! Kristin's parents did her dirty with that name tho. Kristin Christensen is rough 😭

[@aboutdawntoday]

yuck