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If our school are failing, screw vouchers - fix public education.

That US public education is failing merely requires a look at national test scores to see a steady decline. Whenever I see MAGA rally attendees on TV being asked to justify support this or that Trumpolicy, few can even offer a terse example much less a rationale. They seem incapable of critical reasoning. If they were capable of critical reasoning, the MAGAs would probably be attending rallies for Cheney or Newsom.

Research has shown that voucher school performance is not superior to public schools. DeVos's voucher schools promotion is all ga$light. The Right's goal seems to be to turn public education into trade schools (Corporate socialism again). They do not want a workforce of critical thinkers. They want employees who just do what they are told.

Consider all the news stories where legislators complain that colleges are wasting resources by teaching courses like social studies, history, English, philosophy, etc. Those courses are not preparation for a succe$$ful career. Those courses should be eliminated as a waste of the taxpayers' money and replaced with more computer and other STEM courses. When I hear that, I cringe.

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