Data Shows 95% Of Recipients Of Arkansas School Vouchers Already Attend Private Christian Schools

As Joe wrote, “Free money for Christian families who could already afford private Christian schools while draining public schools of desperately needed funds”.  More Christian churches taking over the public secular government / public schools.  This steals much needed money from public schools to create a Christian theocracy.  Hugs


The Arkansas Advocate reports:

Roughly 4,800 students are participating in the first semester of Arkansas’ new K-12 voucher program. A bulk of those kids are attending the largest, mostly-religious private schools in the state. Of the 94 participating private schools, there are also a number focused on students with special needs.

The new data was reported in the Arkansas Department of Education’s first annual Education Freedom Account report to the state Legislature. Less than 5% of students in the program were previously enrolled in a public school. The report brought continued criticism from those opposed to vouchers and the LEARNS Act and praise from those who supported it.

Arkansas Education Association President April Reisma, a special education teacher in the Pulaski County Special School District, said the report should be “deeply disturbing to the tax-paying residents of Arkansas.”

Read the full article.

 

 

 

Free money for Christian families who could already afford private Christian schools while draining public schools of desperately needed funds.

That was always the plan. Subsidize the church and the wealthy on the backs of the poor who will never benefit from this, ever.

Think, for a moment, what a religious school in Arkansas is like. What the kids there are taught — about themselves and about others.

Are you trembling?

Schools? Indoctrination centers? Hate filled activists training facilities?

“Pumping out the next generation of low-info MAGAts. In Jesus’ name.”

An Arkansas madrassa.

“Madrassa” is just the Arabic word for “school (/college/university/seminary)”. Even religious madrassas may teach “secular” subjects such as science and mathematics, literature and art and history. But yes, they are usually indoctrination centres, much like any other religious school.

At my Texas high school, the choir class was all the under 18 members of the Baptist Church choir. They practiced hymns they would be performing on Sunday

They knew the demographics of their private school student body BEFORE the voucher legislation passed. If they thought, for even a minute, that lower income children, particularly brown & black children, would enroll, it wouldn’t have passed

Shoveling money to the rich and scammy Christians and their ignocation programs.

And that’s why Arkansas will continue to remain one of the poorest performing states on education.

 

2 thoughts on “Data Shows 95% Of Recipients Of Arkansas School Vouchers Already Attend Private Christian Schools

  1. Yup, and then they get to buy X-Boxes and take trips to amusement parks, too, I’ve read. I think you posted about that last Spring or early Summer, even. Don’t go look it up; I’m sure we’ve all seen it. It’s just amazing, yet AR’s roads aren’t really very good, considering it’s a tourist state.

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    1. Hi Ali. Yes this is all about destroying public education by starving it to death while transferring public funds to private business and religious organizations so they can be controlled by the right for indoctrination in the right wing maga Christian ideology. Hugs. Scottie

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