A recent National Affairs article by scholar Robert Pondiscio, for example, sounds the following themes: Yes to school choice, but also yes to more funding for public schools.
Sure, public schools are failing, but parents must "Recommit to strengthening," not "Abandon[ing]," public schools.
In 2019, annual expenditures for K-12 public schools totaled almost $800 billion according to the Nation's Report Card, barely one-third of public school students were "Proficient" in math and reading pre-COVID, a dismal track record that worsened significantly post-COVID. Nationally, just 26 percent of eighth graders are proficient in math, with 31 percent proficient in reading.
For over a decade, progressive ideologues have used their control of the public school system to indoctrinate America's children into the pseudoreligious belief system of gender ideology.
In major cities, school districts collaborate with gender clinics to fashion a school-to-gender-clinic pipeline, where "Gender specialists" train teachers, and schools refer students to local gender clinics.
A study of Pittsburgh high schoolers reported that 9.2 percent self-identified as "Transgender" or, more generally, as "Gender diverse," while a study of rural youth found that 7.2 percent of adolescents identified as "Gender diverse," including 7.7 percent of twelve- to fourteen-year-olds.
In 2018, we wrote Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It's Too Late to warn parents that public education's academic failures pale in comparison to the harm done by its embrace of a radical pseudoreligion - gender ideology - behind parents' backs.
https://spectator.org/there-is-nothing-worth-saving-in-americas-public-schools/
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