• Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    70
    2 months ago

    Private schools should be illegal, but barring that giving them state funds is just a roundabout way to kill public education. The right wing's war on public education is truly something to behold. They have made tremendous strides and yet we hear nothing about it outside of educator's circles and the odd news article like this one.

      • VILenin [he/him]
        hexbear
        29
        2 months ago

        There is no institution in America whose primary aim isn’t to shake every last cent out of your pockets

        • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
          hexbear
          15
          2 months ago

          I started a new job last year here in Canada where part of my duties involve handling certain regulatory issues for our US branches. I've been doing work like this for 10+ years domestically. But holy cow, the rent-seeking American bureaucracies are driving me crazy. No wonder a certain group of Americans distrusts the entire concept of government. The only ones they've ever known, typically via privatised rent-seeking bureacracies, are all trying to soak them.

      • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
        hexbear
        11
        2 months ago

        It’s also fueled by racism, some white people will do anything to keep their children away from brown people.