• Today@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ohhhh… Yeah, if that had been a Baptist school they would have won. I’m sure someone said, “if the Catholics get a school then the muslims and satanists will want one too.” Right call, wrong reason.

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      4 months ago

      The AG responsible for this said almost literally that, in the article.

      Now Oklahomans can be assured that our tax dollars will not fund the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism.

      I’ll still take it, though.

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    Why are charter schools called public in the US? Just because they are funded with public money? We call them private in Sweden as they are directed by a private entity and the profits are also private.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, it’s a marketing thing, with some tax loophole type stuff. Charters were pushed by people looking to privatize and destroy public education. Mostly conservatives and neoliberals.

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      Some people call them public because they are funded by the government, not by tuition or private donors. The claim is that a private company freed from government restrictions can do a better job more efficiently.

      That’s a huge load of bullcrap: diverting public school funds from the school system toward private profit

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    4 months ago

    Good. Keep religious indoctrination out of the school room. 👍🏻

    It’s a shame about all the other indoctrination that is still there. But at least let the kids grow up before religion comes knocking at the door. (Literally knocking in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses…lol)