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‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In case you hadn’t noticed, conservatives are chipping away at public education bit by bit.

poor teacher pay resulting in babysitters instead of teachers
overcrowded classrooms
killing the department of education
killing the grants system
starving PBS
getting rid of school busses
censorship to remove reading materials
school vouchers to encourage private schooling

They want a class system of haves/have nots. If you don’t have the money for private schooling, they want your kids working in the fields and the meat processing plants.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And it wasn't much better 10, 20 years ago...

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was much better 10, 20 years ago

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Like, it was bad. It is much worse.