Gov. Greg Abbott voices clear support for school voucher program

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I still have a land line in addition to my cell phone and so I get polled from time to time. I was polled a couple of months back on school vouchers. This was a GOP poll trying to measure support for school vouchers and the gutting Texas public education. .

I see now that Greg wants to destroy public education and give vouchers to children attending private schools.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/10/abbott-public-education-vouchers-school-choice/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1652194547&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday voiced support for a school voucher plan, offering his clearest embrace in recent memory of letting parents use taxpayers dollars to send their kids to non-public schools.

“We can fully fund public schools while also giving parents a choice about which school is right for their child,” Abbott said during a campaign event in San Antonio. “Empowering parents means giving them the choice to send their children to any public school, charter school or private school with state funding following the student.”

Abbott has long been a supporter of the broad concept of “school choice,” but his focus on it has ebbed and flowed throughout his governorship. His commitment to the cause was thrown into question by a recent string of endorsements in Texas House primary runoffs where he backed Republicans opposed by school-choice proponents, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

Critics of vouchers say they hurt public schools, an argument that Abbott’s Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, quickly made after the governor’s remarks.

“Abbott is for defunding our public schools,” O’Rourke tweeted. “I'm for fully funding our kids’ classrooms and fully supporting parents, teachers, and students.”

Greg is out to destroy public education n Texas and this is just the lates tool

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1. I want equal funding for Madrasses in Austin and Dallas and Houston...

I demand that prayers towards Mecca be adhered to BY ALL STUDENTS, and that we have sharia-schools established with the same public funds (on a dollar for dollar basis) and then they can have all the Jeebsu and Young Earth Creationist nonsense they want...

BUT...we cannot forget about my Wiccan friends...or the Satanic Temple's monthly goat sacrifice in the school yard.
And while we're at it...I want to bring back the lottery for drawing the names of young virgins to be offered as burnt offerings...we'll start with a lottery limited to Abotts' family for the first drawing - you know, to avoid favoritism.

Or...

We could simply acknowledge that PUBLIC means SECULAR and PRIVATE means whatever religious BS you want to enforce and the two shalt ne'er mix. And if you want funding for ONE religious school or private entity, then you must support ALL of them equally.

Trust me Greg...its a lot easier to just accept that taking funding from public schools for religious ones is a path to nowhere good.

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2. Duceybag in AZ is hell-bent on the same goal. nt

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3. Statement from TSA opposing Abbott Voucher Scheme:

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4. Privatizing the public schools.

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