The GOP platform calls for 'universal school choice.' What would that mean for students?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — National Republicans are poised to support “universal school choice” as part of the policy platform they adopt at next week’s convention in Milwaukee, a goal supporters see as the culmination of decades advocating for parents’ autonomy to pick their children’s schools. To opponents, it's a thinly veiled blueprint for gutting public education.

The term can mean different things to different people — from erasing school boundaries, to open enrollment, to being able to curate your child’s individual curriculum, to parental control over K-12 course content.

But education experts across the political spectrum interpret the GOP platform’s wording as favoring the type of approach adopted in states like West Virginia and Ohio, which make available taxpayer-funded vouchers, or scholarships, that can follow a child regardless of income to any public or private school.

“In our way of thinking, this is kind of your money, your children and your choice for where they want to go to school,” said Lisa B. Nelson, CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which launched an Education Freedom Alliance in January to fight for just that. About a dozen states now have such programs, and proposals are in play in another 16, according to the alliance.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-platform-calls-universal-school-183507175.html

[Raven123]

1. It means death to public education

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It means all classrooms hang the Ten Commandments in the same place.

[getagrip_already]

3. In practice? No education unless you can afford private school

Or can be home schooled in a networked environment.

Of course, that will only be available to the elite.

Religious schools will teach, but not educate.

[hibbing]

4. Poor and special needs

Publics schools will be left with the poor and those with special needs while tax money gets siphoned off to private schools.

Peace

[no_hypocrisy]

5. It's Parochi-Aid, funding religious schools from public tax dollars.

Bad enough that charter schools have siphoned desperately needed funds from public schools.

Public funds will subsidize schools that may or may not provide deficient education and promote religious dogma, not critical thinking. And simultaneously, public schools will not be able to pay sufficient salary to their teachers and lead to crowded classrooms as their ranks are reduced, due to budget cuts. Some districts are hanging on by their proverbial fingernails.

The Enduring Controversy: Parochiaid and the Law
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/303858252.pdf

[GoodRaisin]

6. It means looting public school funding to corporate owned "for profit" schools.

[Blue Full Moon]

7. Straight from Project 2025

Undermining of our schools and to make our children uneducated.