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In an unwelcomed assertion of state power, the Texas Education Agency has implemented a "New Education System" in the Houston Independent School District, re...

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This smells like a way for Republicans to drive people to home schooling and then cut public school funding.

[–] ElleChaise@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also helps raise more uneducated and poor voters to support the Republican party.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Agreed. The uneducated are much easier to manipulate.

[–] AccmRazr@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Worse. It’s part of the school to prison pipeline. So they are basically going to remove the right to vote from these students in the future.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Remember when a certain demographic was saying that every school shooting was an inside job by the left to push gun control? The question I always had was....who actually stands to gain from implying public education is dangerous?

That's right: private schools. And who was the secretary of education at the time these conspiracies were getting pushed? That's right, Betsy DeVos - charter school proponent.

That's my counter-conspiracy. I don't think it's true, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than an anti-gun protest.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly it. They even state it bluntly in their 2025 dictatorship manual.

[–] Smite6645@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

Can't vote them out of office if you can't read the ballot.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, that's not true! Nazi uniforms were very fashionable.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The SS Line: by Hugo Boss

[–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hand-designed by the finest homosexual fascists to ever get purged /s

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Is Greg Abbott's lack of a spine the reason he uses a wheelchair or just an ironic coincidence?

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

How to make people hate libraries, so the electorate will remain ignorant.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's not new. Hitler did it first.