Thread by @deb_fillman

I am calling on the @HouseGOP @SpeakerMcCarthy and @SenateGOP plus the @GOPGovs to IMMEDIATELY get to work safeguarding private and homeschooled families from govt intrusion via #SchoolChoice 1/

2/Like any other parental rights advocate, I want parents to choose how their kids are educated, but if a state is going to keep taking tax $ for education from them, and then "give" some back to pay for education,

3/I don't want the state or federal govt using that "grant" or voucher as an excuse to tell private schools, and homeschooling parents what they must teach, and/or how they must teach it. That's precisely what parents are trying to escape!

4/Right now, elite private, even episcopal and many catholic schools, and an alarming number of Jewish day schools are MORE WOKE than public (hard to imagine, but true), and as a taxpayer and parent, I do NOT want to keep funding child abuse (and our demise as a nation)

5/nor do I want to withhold funds from desperate parents because they are trying to escape failing schools, or because they've realized that "schooling" in America with govt direction, is a conflict of interest and inherently dangerous.

6/SO, my suggestion is you immediately craft or ask for legislation that prohibits the Dept of Ed at federal and state levels (that's you governors and state legislatures) from imposing conditions on the use of ed$ in terms of worldview and content.

7/IF the purpose of forcibly taking the money to ensure all American kids are "educated," all the govt should care about is they are able to read and compute mathematically at the elementary level. Our schools aren't even doing THAT, but they are making sure our kids question

8/and even hate reality, and the United States of America. They're also data-mining our kids for private and govt entities, including (especially) the UN and other foreign actors. Bad enough tax money is paying for this abuse of power,

9/it should not follow parents home, via private education choices. You want to make sure a school deserves to keep using our money? Make it contingent on whether the kids can read and do math proficiently by the end of third grade. That's it. If they can't, nothing else matters.

10/AND, the rest of whether they can or can't should NOT--I repeat, NOT--be designed or administered by anyone with ANY ties to public or private entities with an agenda. They should be designed as locally as possible. Decentralize these tests, and make the rubrics public.

11/Everyone, students included, should know precisely what the metrics are for proficiency, and should be able to raise the red flag if standards start to fall. Speaking of which, we need laws denying funds to those who lower standards in the name of "racial equity."

12/This is a civil rights violation, and one that is cleverly hidden by claims it's the opposite. No child should be presumed more or less capable because of their race. A standard is a standard, and as much as I detest all of this--from govt funded education to govt standards,

13/if you're going to insist on keeping the dept of Ed and compulsory schooling a thing, please don't let #SchoolChoice become a way to force LOWER standards on all via the funding trap. Public education is already an oxymoron, please don't destroy the only escape we have.

14/Already we have seen Title 9 be used to justify forcing private schools to adopt politically-motivated school policies. We have seen courts rule in favor of this continuing, and states using ESA models for school choice are signaling homeschoolers who take funds will face regs

15/Like I said, I get why there would be strings--it's taxpayer funds--I just want you to do what you can to prevent those strings from tying to political pet causes and "pedagogies." The point of all this govt involvement (allegedly) was 100% literacy right?

16/Well let's get back there. Public dollars should ONLY pay for literacy and numeracy and a thorough reading and understanding of the constitution of the United States. Beyond that? It should not be for the govt to say.

17/and if that makes you queasy, because you personally think school should do more, then maybe get on board with a separation of school and state because THAT is where the most liberty lives. Keep trying to impose a worldview or value set, and I can promise you,

18/the left will too, and they're better at it than you, always have been. Time to admit they own compulsory education, and if you refuse to end it, then FFS at least protect parents and kids from its myriad abuses! Hurry please! /END