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rurallib

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7. Republicans are doing all they can to demonize anything "public"

Sun Oct 16, 2022, 05:51 PM

Oct 2022

including "public" education.

Once the US education system was the envy of the world and Iowa was the envy of the US. Now as you say we are 24th (I heard 29th) and headed down like an elevator.

They hate public anything, especially education AND there is a buck to be made there AND they won't answer to school boards AND they can pick their students AND they can neuter or outlaw teacher's unions AND they can get religion into the curriculum through the backdoor. A real trifecta ++ for the privatize crowd.

They will be doing to education what they did to Medicaid - really fucked it up.

Instead of competing with Minnesota and Massachusetts like we used to we now have our sites set on Mississippi and Louisiana.

Kimmy will be pleasing her donors, her Donald and her gawd.

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Okay my fellow Iowans... what the hell is going on with our educational system [View all] Peacetrain Oct 2022 OP

The GOP has demonized most US institutions including education. Irish_Dem Oct 2022 #1

They've even gone after "the woke" military, thucythucy Oct 2022 #2

Yes the military too. And election workers, election system. Irish_Dem Oct 2022 #4

Irish it just makes smoke come out of my ears seriously... Peacetrain Oct 2022 #3

The US education system is one of the best in the world. The GOP wants to destroy it. Irish_Dem Oct 2022 #5

Yep. We're sitting on money that could help and instead progressoid Oct 2022 #6

Republicans are doing all they can to demonize anything "public" rurallib Oct 2022 #7

Rural it just breaks our hearts what the republicans have done to our educational system Peacetrain Oct 2022 #8

DeJear will lay it out but Iowans won't listen rurallib Oct 2022 #9