It’s amazing how widespread this myth is. It’s pernicious. People who should know better keep spreading it even after being exposed repeatedly to the truth. It’s clearly in bad faith at this point.
FACT: School choice far predates segregation. Voucher programs were proposed by Thomas Paine in “Rights of Man” (1791) and John Stuart Mill in “On Liberty” (1859). Their arguments had NOTHING to do with race.
FACT: Maine and Vermont have had voucher-like town tuitioning programs since the mid-1800s — they had NOTHING to do with race.
FACT: In the 1950s, there were integrationists and segregationists on BOTH sides of the school choice debate. A teacher union leader in Virginia even explicitly opposed school choice because he was afraid it would open spaces for black kids at segregated schools.
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