Peter Greene puts together all the recent policies enacted in North Carolina and predicts the future. The triumph of reform in North Carolina!
Greene writes:
“Political leaders gathered to celebrate today as Department of Education bulldozers upgraded the last NC public school, replacing it with a picturesque park.
“It has been a long road,” said State Education Biggifier Harlen McDimbulb, overseeing the work as the dozer knocked down the last chart-encrusted data wall. “But our big breakthrough came with the court ruling that certified our voucher system back there a few years. That finally allowed us to get money and support to outstanding schools like God Loves White Guys High and Aryan Academy. Great private schools were being denied public tax dollars just because they wouldn’t teach state-approved so-called ‘fact’ and ‘science.'”
“Vouchers opened the door,” said Assistant Secretary of Money Laundering Chauncey Gotbux. “But with the court’s blessing, we were finally able to use public education tax dollars as they were meant to be used– as a source of profit for people who deserve it.”
“Asked about the looseness of oversight and accountability for the tax dollars, Gotbux replied, “When you give the money to the right people, you can trust that they do the right thing with it.”
“There were some serious problems,” admitted Golly Mugbungle of the Greater North Carolina School Choice Initiative Authority. “We quickly streamlined the process so that non-public schools could get their money just by asking for it and completing a simple yet rigorous form. But since the form only asked ‘Are you a school’ and we had no follow-up investigation to look at those claims, we discovered that we were mistakenly sending tax dollars to public schools.” He chuckled nostalgically. “Yeah, we had to shut that down pretty quickly.”

Just one more about public schools in North Carolina (soon to be a nostalgic memory). Vouchers that allow children to go to whatever private school their parents want has potentially horrific consequences. And I’m not saying that from a more liberal protestant perspective, but I guess that many of the Christian schools in your state worship the American flag, free-market capitalism, and no “gubmint” almost as much as Jesus, or they keep them completely separate. It makes me tremble to think what the citizens of NC will be like in two or three generations from now. Rick
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Please note that the private school in NC getting the largest chunk of voucher funds is the Greensboro Islamic Academy.
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Evangelical conservative legislators and Islamic educators? It’s like a Reese’s peanut butter cup.
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The majority of men, in the Islamic and evangelical conservative faiths, believe in submissive women.
What percentage of the female teachers in N.C.vote Republican?.
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Hilarious, but sadly prophetic.
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The part that still amazes me is how public school parents and students are paying a large group of public employees to dismantle and eradicate a public entity.
It’s thru the looking glass- insult to injury. I don’t know: if public schools suck and must be converted to private entities, why are these other public employees so great? Can’t we get rid of them too, at least? We can hire an accounting firm to pay contractors, I would think.
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I got my second glossy giant postcard from School Choice North Carolina today. They don’t want me to miss my opportunity to get a “SCHOLARSHIP” to send my child (I have no school age children) to a private school.
You can check out their fancy website at http://www.schoolchoiceNC.org/
Although MY postcards have a SPECIAL website with my name at the end of the url. I’m sure I am the ONLY one who got my own website. [wink wink]
Maybe I should take my cards to the opening event at the very needy public school where I teach. But somehow I don’t think the SCNC people really want my sweet, but very disadvantaged school kids at their private schools. “Opportunity scholarships” are for kids whose parents can afford the tuition not subsidized by the “up to $4,200.”
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“Golly Mugbungle of the Greater North Carolina School Choice Initiative Authority”
LOL
“God Loves White Guys High” And, its feeder, Malleable Minds Middle School.
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John Bryan from Oregon, influencing N.C., Wisconsin, Alaska…. politicians.
The government money buys.
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