Thread by @cjtackett

There are four types pushing “school choice”

1. For the Catholic Church and billionaire Evangelical Christians like Betsy DeVos, publicly funded vouchers for private religious schools opens a path to taxpayer support for their religious orgs.

Make money + indoctrination

There are four types pushing “school choice”

2. For billionaires like the Walton family, John Arnold and Charles Koch, school choice grants a path to undermining public education and lowering taxes.

Keep tax money, make more money, indoctrination if it helps them out.

There are four types pushing “school choice”

3. For billionaires like Bill Gates, Reed Hastings and Michael Dell, school choice prepares a path for creating an education technology industry that has the promise of huge future profits.

All about the money

There are four types pushing “school choice”

4. For the white supremacist, school choice presents a path for not having their children attending school with “those people.”

The Venn diagrams on 1, 2, and 3 would have some overlap with 4.

The “school choice” movement is rooted in the 1950’s, post Brown v Board and the segregation academies. I put up a thread a Milton Friedman earlier, one of the very vocal “choice” / voucher advocates since 1955.

https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1623308579217321986

As vouchers / education savings accounts continue to be pushed by leaders in Texas and across the country, know the push is being funded and controlled by billionaires in one or more of the groups listed above.

It isn’t about kids. It’s never been about kids.
#txed #publiced

If you want to know who’s funding the leaders in Texas who are pushing “school choice”, may I humbly suggest this thread I assembled.

The billionaires are controlling the agenda. But it’s only because we let them. It doesn’t have to be this way.

https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1623003621968293903

The four types that open this thread are extracts from this really informative article from @tultican, written in 2020.

tultican.com/2020/09/07/sch…

Those pushing “school choice” aren’t coming from just the right.

Think about the 4 groups:
Religious org (Right)
Lower taxes (Right w/some left)
Tech (Left w/some right)
White supremacy (Right)

This isn’t to both sides. One side is way worse.But we must understand the landscape

Here is a quick visual look at what I see as the likely overlap is on the 4 types pushing “school choice”

I know it isn’t a scientific spread, but I think it is representative. I’m sure there are some “tech” who are also “religion”, but I can only do so much with 4 circles. 😀

I don’t have any animosity or bad things to say about the educators or staff at private / charter schools, nor for any parent who feels like they don’t want to continue in a public school and go a different direction. They are doing what is best for their family. I get it.

The issue with private / charters broadly is the motive behind the push for vouchers and “choice”, the people pulling the strings, who aren’t doing it for kids (unlike the parents and staff), but seeing nothing but dollar signs, an opportunity to indoctrinate, or both.