Abbott is really pushing school choice.
The main things I see it resulting in are subsidizing the wealthy with public money, deepening metropolitan-rural prosperity divide, exacerbating poverty cycles, and generally creating a worse, more stressed public education system, especially in poorer districts. Seems like openly catering to rich big city campaign donors...
But at the same time, I graduated from a small Christian high school. I value that experience, and I realize, if not for my mom working at the school, my brother and I probably don’t get that. But I tend to think that access could be achieved by discounts & income-adjusted tuition rates (like my HS Alma Mater does). The Big Gov, just-throw-money-at-it approach seems out of line with traditional conservative thinking as well.
TL;DR - strikes me as terrible policy, but I’m open to hearing the arguments from both sides.
The main things I see it resulting in are subsidizing the wealthy with public money, deepening metropolitan-rural prosperity divide, exacerbating poverty cycles, and generally creating a worse, more stressed public education system, especially in poorer districts. Seems like openly catering to rich big city campaign donors...
But at the same time, I graduated from a small Christian high school. I value that experience, and I realize, if not for my mom working at the school, my brother and I probably don’t get that. But I tend to think that access could be achieved by discounts & income-adjusted tuition rates (like my HS Alma Mater does). The Big Gov, just-throw-money-at-it approach seems out of line with traditional conservative thinking as well.
TL;DR - strikes me as terrible policy, but I’m open to hearing the arguments from both sides.
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