Critics of vouchers say they’re marred by racism and exacerbate segregation. Are they right?

[rangerrebew]

Critics of vouchers say they’re marred by racism and exacerbate segregation. Are they right?
By Matt Barnum  -  July 23, 2017
 

Debates over “school choice” — or “privatization” to critics — were already heated.

Then came a rhetorical hand grenade: a report by the Center For American Progress describing the “racist origins” of school vouchers and presented at the American Federation of Teachers headquarters. AFT president Randi Weingarten doubled down in a recent speech, arguing that voucher programs are the “only slightly more polite cousins of segregation.”

Unsurprisingly, school choice backers have vehemently denied the charge.

“If vouchers are the polite cousins of segregation, then most urban school districts are segregation’s direct descendants,” responded Kevin Chavous of the American Federation for Children, the school voucher group that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos used to lead.

http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/07/23/critics-of-a-vouchers-say-theyre-marred-by-racism-and-exacerbate-segregation-are-they-right/

[INVAR]

They should listen to their allies Black Lives Matters and the Poverty Pimps who are the leaders of blacks in this country.

They demand segregation and the elimination of whites.

So, I say let us separate.  Redistribution of wealth and dumping ghetto trash among productive kids doesn't do any good except increase their vitriol and jealousy to the point they will either steal it themselves or have the government do it for them.

[dfwgator]

My problem with vouchers is that it gets the camel's nose into the tent.   Once a school takes vouchers, they for all intents and purposes, become a "public school."

[Fishrrman]

"Critics of vouchers say they’re marred by racism and exacerbate segregation."

R - resistance
A - against
C - communism
I - indoctrination
S - socialism
T - tyranny

(I didn't write this, but I wish that I had!)