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Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by sottol on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:14PM (#41951365)
That seems to be often the pitfall with socialism-within-capitalism as often done in California imo - many of these socialist-ish policies only work if there's no easy "escape hatch" or it's at least uncommon. But not having access to private alternatives also often goes against free-market ideas.

Afaict, the wealthy and/or well-connected often "drive" the quality of public services - they're not going to insist on improvement if they can easily check out and pay for a private alternative.

I'm not saying to stop private alternatives, just that policies that might work other places probably don't work 1:1 in the US.

Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by Spooky23 on Friday October 25, 2024 @10:53PM (#41952154)
In 2024, the discourse is such that using the words socialism or communism immediately makes your argument sound dumb.

Public education isn’t socialism.

I send my child to a private school. They are awesome, but it’s unwise to rely on them from a policy perspective as extreme reactionary are targeting these school curriculums. Schools without strong endowments, active alumni and good boards are vulnerable.

It’s particularly troubling that American Catholic leadership and evangelicals are building relationships and shared agendas. Things like so-called “classic liberal education”, based on home school programs are infiltrating Catholic elementary schools, for example.

Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by elphinstone on Saturday October 26, 2024 @12:46AM (#41952617)
When was that decided? By who? This game of constantly changing definitions and deciding who can and cannot say what is the hallmark of a tyrannical psuedo-religious ideology that cannot tolerate dissent because its results cannot bear scrutiny.
Re:California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Mid... by Spooky23 on Saturday October 26, 2024 @04:12PM (#41957375)
Words mean things bro. There’s nothing remotely “socialist” about any American political party.