Education

Why You Might Need To Pay For Private School To Save Your Kid From Indoctrination

The far-right is seeking to turn public education upside down

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Up to now, parents who wanted their children to have a religious education enrolled them in a private religious school and paid for it.

Other kids got the standard secular education — the kind of education you get when church and state are two different beasts.

Things are turning upside down.

If the current direction continues, we are going to need to pay to send our kids to private school to avoid them being indoctrinated by the right. We’ll have to open special secular private schools where kids are taught not someone’s religious views but the kind of solid education that enables them to become good citizens.

Conservatives are trying to turn public schools into places where books are banned and history is re-written to avoid having to teach uncomfortable truths about things like slavery and genocide.

For years, conservatives sought to pass legislation that would allow parents to use tax money to pay for private school, but that didn’t go as they wished.

Now they’ve got a new trick.