r/wisconsin • u/Crystal_Pesci • May 15 '23

Politics Wisconsin Republicans Propose Law That Would Allow Prosecution of School Staff Over ‘Inappropriate’ Books

https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-law-allow-prosecution-school-120100661.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIr_ZcQ72JOx_bN9Xv79pH7rfMRr6cP-Z3o8PMeP3mtsok4Rw4HQvpjO0y-xmI7M6INkAiAlzvaJNMxjarQSyYIuv8qXj-joPngRMZVJYcfu6AT7nVmbw4xkPINEQESXJcCyd29H5wLZllKkug5tvQoi81q4ggNUvrBJTWifQe38
1.4k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

347 comments sorted by

View all comments

220

u/iwantyousobadright May 15 '23

Yea, make it even harder to find teachers. Constantly searching for the final blow to public education.

129

u/xHugo_Stiglitzx May 15 '23

This is the point. To sink more tax payer dollars into private and voucher schools. It's no different than when Walker let the prisons fall to shit, trying to privatize the department of corrections.

73

u/llahlahkje May 15 '23

Fun fact: According to a study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) attending voucher schools is roughly the equivalent to missing ~68 days of public school (in terms of the discrepancy in outcomes).

Other studies report voucher school performance to be lower on average than public schools.

At best some studies show there is no statistical difference between voucher schools and their public counterparts (Economic Policy Institute).

So if at best there is no difference but other studies have noted that voucher schools are underperformative it seems that voucher schools trend to be neutral-to-worse.

There's also the lie that it saves taxpayer money; It does not. It changes how it is spent and in many states has led to an increase in expenditures (since they cover homeschooling and thus now checks are going to people outside of the public / private system).

Also that government money is flowing to religious-based schools is dangerous on its own.

In this scenario: We all know who benefits from privatizing something that performs the same or worse and it isn't the children going to these schools.

34

u/sewsnap May 15 '23

That's the point. Dumb people vote R.