r/nashville • u/memphisjones • 2d ago
Gov. Lee appears in advertisement to push school voucher bill ahead of legislative session Politics
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/gov-lee-appears-in-advertisement-to-push-school-voucher-bill/38
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u/admiralinho 2d ago
When 6 people were murdered in a school 5 miles south of his office, Bill Lee called a special session and nothing else. No specific calls for change, no ads about the need to act, not a single public speech, nothing. He somehow did less than the absolute bare minimum possible.
When literally no one in the state wants private school coupons, he went all out to pass them one year, failed, then courted more outside donors, campaigned against republicans who opposed coupons, and runs ads full of lies to get his bill passed.
Bill Lee is a bad person, and I hope he burns in hell.
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u/Logical-Working839 2d ago
I cant wait for a coupon to financially get my daughter out of these woke liberal run schools. It won’t pay for it all, but it will help. I know lots of people tired of the test score funding, agenda pushing public school system.
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
The standardized testing required by No Child Left Behind was an initiative of a conservative Republican administration. I would be interested to know what 'woke' liberal agendas are being pushed in your child's public school.
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
It must be exhausting to be afraid of books.
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u/Logical-Working839 1d ago
Yep, you got it…, all the same folks. Being picked on for having an original thought, keep it up. Looking forward to tomorrow.
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
Books are full of original thoughts. That's why people like to read them.
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u/ariphron east side 2d ago
He really wants to do everything he can to completely bankrupt the state. Just look what the program has done to Arizona.
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u/arminghammerbacon_ 2d ago
Another one on AZ (soft paywall, when page loads, put browser n “Reading” mode): https://magicvalley.com/news/local/education/idaho-arizona-school-choice-program-cautionary-tale-popular-unruly/article_cdf8a880-bff5-11ef-b762-3f2a5d5e9da9.html
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u/vomitHatSteve 2d ago
"Cooome onnnn, guys! I just wanna siphon public funds to my friends. Why won't you let me embezzle tax money?"
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u/SamDBeane 2d ago
I grow more and more baffled by these religious fuckers’ quest for control and power. Money is not the only reason.
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u/WrongAssumption2480 2d ago
That way they can shove their religion down everyone’s throats. I guarantee if vouchers become the norm, then they will start adding prayer and the 10 commandments to schools stating it’s part of the deal with the vouchers.
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u/Beestorm 2d ago
School vouchers are a fucking scam. Shame on republicans for electing this pox on our state.
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u/wingnutbutternutter 2d ago
Fuck Bill Lee! He keeps pushing this voucher crap even when voters say they don't want it. He works for the wealthy, himself and furthering the MAGA agenda of "keep them dumb and that they will always vote for us."
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u/GnarDex 2d ago
These are the 2 bills the TN state legislature are trying to push. It’s funny how they always hide the most malicious intent in the bills with the most virtuous sounding names.
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u/iloveoxytocinalot 2d ago
Ugh of course it’s sponsored by Lamberth. That Guy Fieri wannabe is the worst
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
Lamberth's brain has been rotted by LA Looks Hair Gel.
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u/arminghammerbacon_ 2d ago
This is the execution of a plan to complete the reduction of most of the US population down to wage slaves. Couch the argument in terms of fighting against public education “wokism”, and fighting for pro-Christian education. Which will be enormously popular in red states. It passes with raucous support.
Charter school corporations and private companies will get to raid public money/tax dollars, enriching themselves beyond measure.
Here’s what happens to the citizens with school-age children: The wealthy will be fine. Unaffected. They’re already going to Expensive private schools getting a top quality education. They’ll continue to do so.
The upper middle class will make a mad scramble, grasping at a few of those voucher dollars and going into massive debt, desperately trying to get their kids into those quality private institutions. A few will make it. Many will fall off the table and down into the pool of chaos below.
And that pool of chaos is where poor and lower middle class kids are bounced around in failing fly-by-night charter school scams, extreme religious schools teaching only radical dogma with little educational quality, and a plethora of homeschooling groups that have poor to middling matriculation rates.
This creates a massive population of students not ready for college. Barely literate, if at all. Certainly no exposure to arts and sciences. Good for only one thing: low wage jobs with no labor rights, no healthcare, and no hope. There’ll be a small educated ownership class, very wealthy, in charge of everything. It’ll be a return to serfdom.
Elon and Vivek are wrong about H1B’s - today. But in 10 years they’ll be right. The ownership class will need to import large numbers of scientists, engineers, technicians, and researchers from Asia to help manage their empires. Another desperate captive workforce willing to work for rock bottom salaries. Because the vast majority of Americans won’t be qualified to do much of anything once public education has thoroughly been pillaged and plundered.
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
100% agree. Would also add that special-needs students will be excluded by most, if not all, of these private schools. And everyone will marvel at the private school test scores from the cherry-picked students and use them as evidence that the voucher program is working.
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u/Cultural-Task-1098 1d ago
This is a Christian right takeover of public education.
Is this what Jesus taught: take from the poor and keep your lamp under a basket?
Is there anything more Pharisee like and less Christ like than something like this?
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u/memphisjones 23h ago
Nah it’s rich people taking over education under the guise of “Christianity”.
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u/Cultural-Task-1098 21h ago
"Everything went downhill when they took prayer out of schools."
I've heard this for 50 years. None of those people were rich.
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u/memphisjones 20h ago
Oh I’m referring to the people who are pushing this bill. They will be the ones that will get even richer. But your point is valid.
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u/ActAffectionate6926 2d ago
The test results represent this s not good use of taxpayer money. Contact your legislators and just say no!
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u/BrockAtWork 2d ago
Can someone who has a lot of knowledge about this hit me with the broad strokes. I read this article and feel like I’m still not sure what it’s REALLY about?
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u/Staaaaation 5 Points 2d ago edited 1d ago
We all pay into a pool with our taxes. Some of that money goes to "public education". Religious and private schools don't get that money since they're choices, not inherent. Kids get "free" education at public schools, not choice schools. It's "free" because we all pay for it with the tax pool. Some people think it isn't fair they don't get that money just because they chose to send their kids to religious schools. They believe it's discriminating against their religion. They also don't like how public schools aren't teaching their particular religious beliefs, and think it's unfair they should have to pay extra to send their kids to a school that does. School vouchers would allow the local government to divert some of the money we all pay to these choice schools. See anything blatantly problematic with this?
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u/GnarDex 2d ago edited 2d ago
https://tnbills.com/house/HB0001
TLDR; it will take funds the tn dept of education usually has set aside for public schools and will reappropriate them to assist parents in paying for private or charter schools.
Crippling an already nonexistent budget.
IMO: They can’t push conservative religious agendas in public schools (separation of church and state) so they are abandoning the system in place (and the lower income families that benefit from them) in favor of bifurcating their children behind paywalls.
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u/ButtCoinBuzz 2d ago
This is the ACTUAL Republican answer to school shootings. Segregation through diverting wages to private schools.
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u/mrschanandelorbong 1d ago
Bill Lee needs to give his balls a tug. Nobody wants these vouchers, except him and his rich buddies. This is stupid. This nutsack needs to crawl back into the HVAC company he came from.
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u/ScarcityLeast4150 2d ago
we live in a state that allows one to select state-produced, anti-abortion license plates. just let that marinate.
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u/GnarDex 2d ago
You can also buy “don’t tread on me” license plates from the government. The government…
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 1d ago
And unironically place the Gadsden Flag license plate on your British-made Land Rover.
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u/sauteslut 1d ago
Fun fact: if you go to Charleston, SC you can visit the grave of Christopher Gadsen, which has a horizontal gravestone, and you can tread all over that motherfucker
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6664742/christopher-gadsden
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u/vandy1981 Short gay fat man in a tall straight skinny house 2d ago
I do not want my tax dollars to go towards religious schools, for-profit schools or schools that can discriminate against LGBT students/parents/teachers.