Being in favor of school choice should be a left-wing position, yet they oppose it and here's why

It seems baffling, considering the fact that Democrats are traditionally for educational freedom, but there's a devious reason why that has changed.

The snarkier explanation is that substandard teachers with their radical leftist ideologies won't be able to indoctrinate kids into their cult if their parents have a choice in where their kids are educated.

The argument over school choice is a multi-faceted one, and for those who don't follow it, it can seem like a daunting topic.

First, let me explain what it is. The simplest explanation I can give is that school choice essentially gives you a voucher for your child's education that you can then use to enroll them into whatever school you wish for them to attend. It's taxpayer money that essentially acts as a tuition payment.

As it stands now, the current system doles out federal, state, and local funding to each school based on a whole slew of factors that vary not only state by state, but even district by district, in many cases. It's a bureaucratic mess, as most things are where the government is concerned. Seems like a structure that came about to justify paying a bunch of useless bureaucrats to exist.

Basically, a school is paid so much via taxpayer funds to educate your child, with New York's allotment per child being the highest at around $20,000. With school choice, this money would be allotted to whatever school you choose for your child.

The common argument against school choice that I hear is that it would spread already thin funding even thinner, since it would also be going to private schools if a parent so chose to enroll their child there and use the proverbial voucher for their child's education as tuition at said private school. I understand that, and that is correct on some levels, but it could quickly be rectified by lawmakers appropriately funding things.

The current estimate for underfunding of the public school system is as high as $150 billion annually. Remind me, how much have we pissed away to Ukraine this year? How much foreign aid have we sent out this year? How much of the defense budget are we wasting on black budget projects the public never knows about? I'm guessing we could make up the difference no problem.

Something I don't get about the left's opposition to school choice is how their current stance of opposition essentially only harms middle and lower class families. It does absolutely nothing to the rich.

Rich people always have school choice. They usually enroll their kids in private schools, but in the event they don't, they can always move to a better school district if necessary. And usually in the areas where they live, the schools are better funded by the higher property taxes incurred by their more expensive homes and other assets. Better funding brings in better teachers, and better teachers with all the resources they need at their fingertips are going to do a better job. Period.

Those of more nominal means are harmed by the lack of school choice because it's very likely most families can't afford to move, meaning they can't leave a bad school district and move to a better one, typically. This forces lower income families to just tough it out and hope for the best, and it's damn hard for a student living in poverty to succeed. Of course there are outliers in everything, but in crappy schools it is mere happenstance that they produce a good student who goes on to succeed in life.

One of the scariest ideas for opponents of school choice is for that theoretical public education funding voucher to go to paying for homeschooling. This would have cataclysmic effects across the board for activist teachers trying to groom kids into their cult. Not only would they be out of a job, but their access to your children goes to zero, at that point. And since the left seems to be breaking their necks to ensure they don't procreate, your children are their only hope for pushing their insane ideology into the minds of the next generation.

One of the real culprits for why school choice is the enemy for the institutional left is because if schools have to compete for kids to put in their desks, the worst schools will go the way of the dinosaur. And if that happens, many substandard educators - often unionized - will be out of work. That means no more dues being paid into the unions by those teachers.

Furthermore, teachers' unions are fighting tooth and nail to keep critical race theory in classrooms across the country. They're rife with radical activists who went into education expressly to try and indoctrinate and corrupt the next generation of kids coming up. Of course if you ask them about it they'll still tell you that CRT doesn't exist, but one look at the textbooks states like Florida have banned for their subversive materials that have nothing to do with the subjects they're teaching, and you'll know that CRT is alive and well in the public education system.

Ignore their weak argument and make sure that school choice makes it on the ballot in your area. Vote it in and destroy the institutional left's subversive agenda. They're the enemies of your childrens' futures.

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