I was once enrolled in an independent fundamentalist baptist school due to it being the "cheapest" private school my parents could afford.
A result of a mass disinvestment from Florida's public school system.
That school, Westwood, has official ties to Bob Jones University, the infamous unaccredited college that held onto a ban against interracial dating till 2006.
This school also had a majority of Latine brown students.
In schools like this, Christian schools all, queer kids are
forced into the closet and made to hear about how unnatural and hated they are every. Single. Day.
The teachers in these schools often teach outright lies about History, Science, and English.
At Westwood, Indigenous genocide was praised for "bringing Christ" to Indigenous peoples.
Slavery was also seen as a small price to bring Christ into Black people's lives.
To the teachers of Westwood, most of whom have unaccredited degrees from Bob Jones, Pensacola Christian, and other horrible abusive universities, the Earth is only 6000 years old.
Abortion is murder comparable to the Holocaust.
And everyone outside their church is Hellbound.
This is what the Supreme Court is saying should get YOUR taxpayer money. THIS is what the Court has ruled, 6-3, as being worthy of federal assistance.
And one last thing?
Westwood was founded in 1956, 3 years after Brown v. Board. In Miami before mass refugee exoduses from Cuba and other Latine countries.
It's a segregation academy.
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I'm gonna need you to stop claiming Democrats haven't "learned their lesson."
Okay? Hard as it is to believe, they aren't still promoting anti-abortion candidates and ignoring every solution out of pure ignorance.
They do it for money.
Maybe you haven't paid attention, but the higher-ups of capital have been sounding the alarm about "decreasing birth rates" for YEARS now.
They want more workers born without paying for the actual cost of childcare. They want their cake and to eat it, too.
And this is not a Republican-only issue. BOTH "sides" of our center-right establishment have been calling for Americans to give birth to more and more kids to avoid "economic bust" (read: to make more money for themselves).
People rightfully throw shade at Fox News calling Latin American nations "Mexican countries," but, listen, I grew up being taught by people who said shit like that to a majority Latin student population. And it was legal. #ExposeChristianSchools
Let me tell a story: one time, my guidance counselor was teaching, and the topic turned to immigration. We students liked getting our bigoted or opinionated teachers off on rants to distract from boring lesson plans. It was really easy to get them going.
He eventually started talking about his Spanish wife. Spanish. Pure European. White as fuck. Let me emphasize: not Latina at all.