{"id":135584,"date":"2017-12-08T07:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135584"},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:34:19","slug":"tax-dollars-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/tax-dollars-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Your tax dollars at work"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do school vouchers mean in this age of Betsy DeVos?<\/p>\n

Vouchers for private education are not new to this Administration, but as Trump’s Secretary of Education, De Vos has been pushing those programs like crazy. Public schools, after all, are full of government<\/i> and unions<\/i> and even (crazy though it sounds) minorities<\/i> and poor people<\/i> and unbelievers.<\/i> Only by taking tax dollars and turning them over to private educational institutions can good<\/i> people get the right-thinking<\/i> education for their successors<\/del> followers<\/del> children.<\/p>\n

So what sorts of things do kids get to learn at some of the more, um, devout<\/i> private schools that are paid for by voucher programs?<\/p>\n

— How Satan invented “psychology” and “evolution” in the late 1800s in a plot against the growth of Christianity in the United States.<\/p>\n

— How women getting the vote led to increasingly un-Biblical behavior in the United States.<\/p>\n

— How the Civil War was really<\/i> a punishment by God of blasphemy and religious cults, and how He made a good thing out of it by causing the South to rise again as the Bible Belt.<\/p>\n

Remember, these are lessons being taught from book being bought with your<\/i> tax dollars, handed over to religious zanies running private schools who are thrilled to have such funding, even as they despise the government that makes it possible.<\/p>\n


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\nThese Schools Are Teaching Some Truly Insane Things<\/a><\/span>
\nHuffPost looked into the curricula at Betsy DeVos\u2019s preferred form of education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do school vouchers mean in this age of Betsy DeVos? Vouchers for private education are not new to this Administration, but as Trump’s Secretary of Education, De Vos has been pushing those programs like crazy. 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