Gov Abbott is serious about school vouchers...

[surfered]

After failing during the regular session to get his voucher bill passed, he called a Special Session where he lost again. Undeterred and armed with $6 million from a Pennsylvania billionaire, he is funding, endorsing, and campaigning for primary challengers against his own Republican legislators who voted NO on his voucher bill.

What are vouchers? Some call it school choice. Under the Governor's plan, for school property taxes paid, you would receive a voucher to pay tuition for your child to go to a private school. Which GOP legislators voted against this plan? They're mostly from rural areas where the school is the center of their community. Why did they vote against it? They realize they likely won't have the option of a private school in their community and they also know that any property tax money diverted to private schools will mean less money for their school.

[dutch777]

1. Yet another great plan by a Repug to de facto underfund public schools and kill teacher morale. Brilliant!

[TwilightZone]

2. He's beating a dead horse.

Credit to the legislature for continuing to thwart his efforts on the issue. Too bad they won't thwart his efforts on other issues, like installing razor wire at the border.

[walkingman]

3. The disgusting A**hole will not stop until this passes. I suspect that the majority

of Texas would be fine having a theocracy. They know they can depend on the religious vote, no matter their inhumane actions.

[keithbvadu2]

6. When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?

When a theocracy takes over America, which church (Christian of course) will be in charge?
Will the others accept their rule?
Many Catholics/Protestants consider the other to be false Christians.
Would they accept Mormons as the rulers?
Westboro Baptist Church?
The new rulers will be political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

We have plenty of people who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America.

The Christian version of Sharia Law.

[walkingman]

8. Many evangelical Christians here in Texas say they don't want theocracy, but

they support laws based on Biblical and church doctrine. If that isn't a theocracy, what is it?

[Irish_Dem]

9. The evangelicals want their religion to be the law of the land.

We will all be forced to act in accordance with their church doctrine, like it or not.

I guess the other christian religions are out of luck.

[Lonestarblue]

4. I hope Republicans are finally waking up to school vouchers being a way to destroy public education.

They’re a subsidy for private schools, many of which are for profit schools. They rob poor, and rural, schools to give money to the private schools the wealthy can already afford. Most rural communities have at best one right-wing Christian school that is little better than vacation Bible school.

[SarahD]

5. Bye bye rural life.

As the article says, public schools are vital to small towns and rural areas. School vouchers suck.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Vouchers should be issued by lottery and eligible for all voucher schools.

All public students should be eligible for vouchers which is public money.

And eligible for any voucher school which may require another lottery.

The voucher should be all the funding required from the family.

After all, it's based on the public school cost.