Renee Sekel is a parent and public school advocate in North Carolina. She sends her children to public schools. She remembers when she naively believed that the state’s legislators supported public schools. Then the budget cuts started coming. Then charters. Then vouchers. Now, she says, public schools are in a race against time.
She wrote:
Four years ago, both Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina at least made a show of claiming to support public education, even as the legislature slashed budgets and passed one policy after another aimed at undermining public schools. What worries me today is how that rhetoric has shifted. Our Republican leaders now openly acknowledge that they are hostile to public education and would prefer to replace public schools with a voucher system. I know that the vast majority of North Carolinians from all across the political spectrum support public schools, but increasingly it feels like we’re in a race against time, trying to get citizens to understand that our schools are under attack. If it becomes orthodoxy in the GOP that public schools are anathema, and a critical mass is convinced that the schools their children attended−that they attended−should be destroyed, there is no going back.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Stop Politically Driven Education is my book that details this
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Education today has become a political football. Now that public money is being used for private interests and schools, many red states are trying to dismantle public education. Even in some urban areas in blue states, corporate Democrats keep trying to justify putting poor, minority students in segregated private charter schools. All the political shenanigans have put our young people in the middle of the disruption, chaos and under funding.
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What we are living through (not just witnessing) is how ruthless narcissists, psychopaths, and sociopaths gain power with lies and misinformation to morph a human civilization into a dystopian nightmare.
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It was way more than four years ago that the North Carolina public schools were under attack. If this poor parent was ever under the assumption that the Tea Party North Carolina was sympathetic to the public school, this parent was misled by the media who brought the news. Since the education reform era began over 20 years ago, no system has been more consistently degraded.
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“If this poor parent was ever under the assumption that the Tea Party North Carolina was sympathetic to the public school, this parent was misled by the media who brought the news.”
Based on this and many previous statements, I’ve come to the conclusion that you missed your calling. You’d have been a great diplomat! You use a rhetorical velvet glove deftly.
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Roy, the worst of the NC state-led “reforms” began in 2010, when extremists took control of the Legislature and Governorship. Before that, NC had a long line of pro-public Ed governors, like Jim Hunt.
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True. Your time line is more accurate than mine
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