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‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case you hadn’t noticed, conservatives are chipping away at public education bit by bit.

  • poor teacher pay resulting in babysitters instead of teachers
  • overcrowded classrooms
  • killing the department of education
  • killing the grants system
  • starving PBS
  • getting rid of school busses
  • censorship to remove reading materials
  • school vouchers to encourage private schooling

They want a class system of haves/have nots. If you don’t have the money for private schooling, they want your kids working in the fields and the meat processing plants.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And it wasn't much better 10, 20 years ago...

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was much better 10, 20 years ago

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Like, it was bad. It is much worse.