You've already won the week: "Something stupid, this way comes."
This is why TTTW is so great, Jim — you bring your reporter's experience to help readers understand 1) that Texas school finance has been inadequate from the get-go, and how Abbott's voucher giveaway will make matters worse, and 2) what is actually happening in Mexico as a result of our trade policy over the last 30+ years.
Another thought: framing the voucher scheme as mostly benefitting private Christian schools is accurate, but may leave the impression this it is a religious, or at least values-driven, policy. But it's all about the money, money, money. Watch for the private religious schools to get squeezed out by Big Voucher.
Yeah, you make a good point about overall privatization of Texas Public Schools. He wants to give education over to businesses and take the burden off the state and officeholders. More money for the big grift being run by Abbott and his party of Trumpublicans. I think most of the schools getting money, though, will be religious in nature, and 100 percent Christian. Imagine Abbott sending money to a Muslim school that he thinks is teaching Sharia Law?
A couple quibbles: Perot got his start in politics when he got involved in the POW/MIA movement under Nixon (who gave a shit about Vietnamese POW/MIAs?). And he got exactly 0 electoral votes in 1992.
But his efforts to reform Texas education. though ultimately futile as Robin Hood turned into hood robbin', made him a great man
Yes, good points. The POW thing was an outgrowth, as I recall, of his effort to get some of his employees freed, which ended up occurring before he was able to do anything. Became the subject of Ken Follett's book "On the Wings of Eagles." He was always political as any big businessman, I suppose, and he bought into the notion there will still US troops being secretly held in Vietnam, which was not ever proved. His vote totals, even without electoral votes, helped Clinton in states HW might have won, though. His work on educational reform in Texas was commendable, but, as you suggest, Robin Hood never really worked, and, effectively, still does not. Visit any poor or rural community in Texas and look at the schools.
His legacy cannot come soon enough.
You've already won the week: "Something stupid, this way comes."
This is why TTTW is so great, Jim — you bring your reporter's experience to help readers understand 1) that Texas school finance has been inadequate from the get-go, and how Abbott's voucher giveaway will make matters worse, and 2) what is actually happening in Mexico as a result of our trade policy over the last 30+ years.
Another thought: framing the voucher scheme as mostly benefitting private Christian schools is accurate, but may leave the impression this it is a religious, or at least values-driven, policy. But it's all about the money, money, money. Watch for the private religious schools to get squeezed out by Big Voucher.
Yeah, you make a good point about overall privatization of Texas Public Schools. He wants to give education over to businesses and take the burden off the state and officeholders. More money for the big grift being run by Abbott and his party of Trumpublicans. I think most of the schools getting money, though, will be religious in nature, and 100 percent Christian. Imagine Abbott sending money to a Muslim school that he thinks is teaching Sharia Law?
Thanks, amigo, for such kind words.
Much like the national strategy, our Guv and his ilk want to loot the system before destroying it.
Ain’t nobody stoppin’ ‘em, either.
A couple quibbles: Perot got his start in politics when he got involved in the POW/MIA movement under Nixon (who gave a shit about Vietnamese POW/MIAs?). And he got exactly 0 electoral votes in 1992.
But his efforts to reform Texas education. though ultimately futile as Robin Hood turned into hood robbin', made him a great man
Yes, good points. The POW thing was an outgrowth, as I recall, of his effort to get some of his employees freed, which ended up occurring before he was able to do anything. Became the subject of Ken Follett's book "On the Wings of Eagles." He was always political as any big businessman, I suppose, and he bought into the notion there will still US troops being secretly held in Vietnam, which was not ever proved. His vote totals, even without electoral votes, helped Clinton in states HW might have won, though. His work on educational reform in Texas was commendable, but, as you suggest, Robin Hood never really worked, and, effectively, still does not. Visit any poor or rural community in Texas and look at the schools.
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