See this pretty private school in Florida? that's where you're tax dollars are going vis a vis the voucher program - In Finland, private schools are not allowed, ensuring every single child gets equal opportunities and education
That's a democracy - the US should try it sometime
@CdnChrisCo: That's easier to accomplish in a 91% ethnically homogenous (Finnish) nation of only 5.54 million people and of size of slightly less than 313,000 sq. mi.
The US, on the other hand, isn't as ethnically homogeneous, is also made up (still) of 50 smaller states, has 332 million people who do *not* get along all that well or agree on (it seems) most things, even the simplest, and is just under 3,800,000 sq. mi. in size, not to mention almost completely geo-isolated.
The definition of a democracy is the practice or principles of social equality
not seeing any principal of equality here. You?
The states is a nation of the haves and the have nots, where tax revenues are routinely co-opted by the greedy and bad actors, as opposed to ensuring equity in the fundamentals of life such as an education
Private schools are about capitalism, not democracy. A distinction frequently thought as the same by many americans fr decades of gaslighting
@CdnChrisCo: That's not the definition of a democracy.
@CdnChrisCo: I understand and share the frustration, but I must disagree with you on the terminology and perhaps some ideology. Alas, that's not a conversation I have the energy for at about 10 PM EST.
@CdnChrisCo: The notion that democracy means social equality is silly, regardless if it's in a dictionary or not. What happens when enough of a population votes to fuck over a demographic in its own borders? That democracy is a practice of greater social equality only applies to those in that democracy who want that outcome.
Ancient Greece was a direct democracy. Women and slaves couldn't vote. Women could vote in Greece until later WW2. Heck, they couldn't vote here for most of US history.
silly?
I live in a social democracy. There are dozens of nations that are social democracy's.
Read the preamble
The central claim that “all men are created equal” had profound implications for the American regime of liberty. The “self-evident truth” of human equality meant that humans had equal natural rights, equally gave their consent to create a republican government, had equal dignity, and were equal under the law
That is not what America is
That sounds like an excuse.
In the fall of 2019, some 4.7 million kindergarten through grade 12 students (9 percent) were enrolled in private schools. Predominantly white
so 91% of students parents would agree that all students should have the same level of opportunity and education.
It the top 10% of wealth in America that ensures otherwise
Equality (democracy) vs 'capitalism (oligarchy)
Tell me again that whole diversity excuse that ensures a 2 class society in USA
@CdnChrisCo: It can sound to you whatever it may. 🤷♂️
I'm not disagreeing that things are off-kilter. They're always off-kilter. Always have been and always will be. Or almost certainly will be. Humans behave the same ways they have since ever, just with different technology. We cycle through the same behaviors, forget the same things over and over, rediscover them over and over, and fuck them up again over and over. Often individually but absolutely collectively. it's always a struggle.
natural evolution dictates otherwise
its merely the ruling class superimposing their will over the natural expansion of the human condition that inhibits it
@CdnChrisCo: Also, a democracy does in no way necessitate that there should be no private schools. It could certainly be put to vote, of course, which is democracy.
The mingling of federal eduction dollars going to private schools is certainly ridiculous, but that's Florida, and sadly, that's what their elected state government decided to do. A SCOTUS decision left the decision to the states about that, of course. That's democracy as well, alas.