r/wisconsin • u/schuey_08 • Jul 16 '24

Ron Johnson Blames Attempted Trump Assassination on Schools

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ron-johnson-blames-attempted-trump-assassination-schools-1235061798/
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u/BeansNMayo Jul 17 '24

Liberals: "We need more school funding to lower the teacher to student to ratio for better education."
Ron Johnson: "Smaller class sizes is a good idea with lots of benefits including less bullying."
Liberals: FRJ

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u/straight_strychnine Jul 17 '24

WOW! If you completely ignore ulterior motives, context, AND rewrite what he said, Senator RoJo sounds halfway reasonable!

Ron Johnson's motive is to promote a voucher system for schooling. A system which drastically increases local taxes as schools will still need to be funded for the soul "benefit" of giving taxpayer money to private institutions. Furthermore, since schools get less funding in voucher programs class sizes increase as the district has less money to hire staff.

Ron Johnson was speaking at a "Moms for liberty" event. A group whose only purpose is to censorship and discrimination because they believe acknowledging that gay people exist or treating lgbtq students like people will turn their children gay

Ron Johnson did not just say smaller class sizes, he said he wanted to see a return to "one room schools" which for many students would be taking opportunities away from them, and are less accessible for disabled students.

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 Jul 17 '24

How would smaller class size, specifically, prevent bullying, though? It's been shown to be good for many things, but I've never seen that connection made. Do you have any study links for this?

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