North Carolina has a Democrat Governor, and he’s losing his mind. The Republicans in the legislature passed a bill to allocate an additional 400 million so students could find schools that best fit their learning needs. He was so unhinged he declared a state of emergency.
https://t.co/8Wp6Cp1jwJ right now: pic.twitter.com/qaJ0Sdbqli
— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) May 22, 2023
From The Daily Wire.
“It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education. I’m declaring this a state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening. If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it’s time to take immediate action and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation,” Cooper said in a press release.
Set back which schools because they aren’t all created equal. And maybe that’s the ticket. We treat this like everything else in the American experiment. Candidates (schools) line up every few years in an education primary and appeal to parents and students for their vote (education dollars), except that every student wins, as does the school that gets their education dollars.
Or women’s health care. Competing ‘clinics’ could appeal to women by offering better services, increased value, lower pricing, amenities, or aftercare/counseling (or not), and a woman could take those “women’s health care dollars” to the ‘provider’ that best suits their needs. Let the money follow the abortion.
Taxpayers are asked to fund both as if it were a moral imperative, and if education is about students learning and not partisan politics, then shouldn’t the taxpayer investment, especially for those who need the support and can’t afford as many options, be able to pick learning experiences that best fit their needs?
It’s the student’s body, so it should be about student choice.
