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.
@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.
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.