Getting Involved: School Vouchers Using Tax Payer $$
Why this is about RACISM and not School Choice
Note: Join our LIVE Wed Night Q&A on YouTube to discuss this more. (If this link doesn’t work, simply look for it on the main page under “Lives”)
I am not assuming we all fall on the same side of all the issues. However, the best way to ensure we are doing our best to provide equality and justice for all is of course to do our own research…and then…
Apply this patriarchal lens I am sharing in our first season to help us understand how our choices either will keep us in or move us out of patriarchy.
Here in TX the overly eager White Nationalists are continuing to try to overtake the seven areas of influence (if you are not familiar with the 7 Mountain Mandate — please look this up…or remind me to send you a linke later…along with how I know TX is being bought by white christian nationalist billionaires).
Children of course are at the foundation of this.
“Get ‘em young and raise ‘em up in the way of the lord, and they will not stray. They will be good lil’ boy and girl soldiers for the lord’s army.”
Or something like that is their hope within the MAGA movement.
I had a friend (who will hopefully be joining me on future our Wed night Lives in a month or so!) bring more awareness to me on this topic on the Book of Face.
Today, I took about 45 minutes to do some research and put together a quick email to send to my reps.
Reps who I was horrified (though absolutely not surprised having been a christian nationalist unknowningly at one point) publically shared their religious affiliation and work in evangelical mission field on their state rep. pages.
I am sharing this info here for you to use as you will.
Education.
Education + Action.
Or skip it all together — though I hope you will not.
Us coming together as citizens right now AT THE STATE & LOCAL LEVEL is our best defense in these times — and forever more. Coming together at the local level, I am seeing, is how we can start to move back towards
PARTNERSHIP SOCIETIES (I talk about this in Episode 1A)…
or something similar.
I DON’T LIVE IN TEXAS
I know many states are trying to move towards this Voucher system…and I want you encourage you to do your research in your state.
Both on the topic and your local/state reps.
Bookmark that page and be the annoying dripping faucet if you have to.
Go to their Book of Face page and post comments on their posts.
We must stay abreast of the issues more than ever now and still let our voices be heard.
I also want you to know School Choice (as they call it) is not about CHOICE as the conservatives want you to believe.
The non-white children — even with these vouchers — will most likely still not be able to afford private schools.
Most of our private schools are religiously affiliated - with Christian denominations being the majority of that state. I have all of that below.
BUT, I encourage you to start with this video. I know it says its about Pro-Life. But it is about so much more. You only have to watch about 5-8 mins in to understand the mostly unknown HISTORY behind our private schools in America to understand how I can say this is about Racism. (Also, this YTers does a great job with deconstructing stuff from Christianity!)
Here is what I shared on my personal wall on the Book of Face today that includes my own personal story of private schools here in Texas…and the info I researched on this subject.
I also am willing to share the letter with anyone who wants to see how I constructed mine with some of these data points.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
As a mom who had no choice for her son to go to a White Christian Nationalist school in Grapevine, Texas...I can tell you -- they are already siphoneing off enough money from their attendees’ families in many ways.
The president of this school wore Armani-type suits and had a ranch (where he used the kids FREE LABOR to do the work on the ranch, under the disguise of "growing them into men") while the teachers (mostly women) were struggling to honor their "commitment to the lord" to serve our children.
I had two cease and desist orders thrown on me in attempts to speak up at that school against what I saw.
It was ALL WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS propaganda -- from the girls having the responsiblity to ensure to "dress properly" so as the boys wouldn't be tempted or sin...and the boys got all the support of the male leaders of the school (becuase of course the men were the leaders and women the teachers/support staff).
Sending more money to these private, typically all white schools is not in our tax payers our childrens’ best interest.
RESEARCHED INFO
Link to find out who represents you if in Texas — please bookmark.
Here is an article to learn more about this in Texas specifically.
Here is some data on how PRIVATE SCHOOLS from 2019-20 where it says this (most recent I could find for some reason):
Sixty-six percent of private schools, enrolling 76 percent of private school students and employing 68 percent of private school FTE teachers in 2019–20, had a religious orientation or purpose (table C-2).
Sixty-six percent of private school students in 2019–20 were White non-Hispanic; 12 percent were Hispanic, regardless of race; 9 percent were Black non-Hispanic; 7 percent were Asian non-Hispanic; 5 percent were of Two or more races non-Hispanic, 0.6 percent were American Indian non-Hispanic, and 0.7 percent were Pacific Islander non-Hispanic (table C-9).
From: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/2021061.pdf
MOST PRIVATE SCHOOLS are of the Christian origin (most updated I could find):
https://capenetwork.org/private-school-statistics-at-a.../
Here’s to reclaiming our children’s and our neighbor’d children’s public and free of religious education!