"Controlled Choice" The fact that politicians in NY can come up with an oxymoron as blatant as that without even so much as flinching shows that they have ingrained peak despotism in their souls.

@s0nnyburnett

4 жыл бұрын

They're already fine with killing babies, anything else isn't worth their time considering.

More government, centralized power, unaccountable faceless decision makers....these are the problems.

Why can’t the same amount of money follow each child to whatever school they choose to go to?

@homewall744

4 жыл бұрын

Because that would support equal protection under the law, support liberty and free association and free markets, and that would produce the best outcomes without needing the authority that politicians "serve" to oppress with.

@skelley521

4 жыл бұрын

Only 70% of Gov funds follow the student. 30% still go to the school district which they reside in. Hurt teachers? This is about helping Children.

@bradchristy8429

4 жыл бұрын

madwtube Yup. As soon as the solution to declining graduation rates was to reduce graduation standards, education was no longer the goal. Indoctrination, however....

@jackmars931

4 жыл бұрын

Because I don't want my tax dollars going to a school that spends half the day teaching Sharia Law and forces girls to wear burkas.

>The People's Republic of Brooklyn Lol.

Last time I was this early, parents could still make choices for their children...

@AK1776-

4 жыл бұрын

A E right! Did you see that clown from Vermont that wanted the age of cellphone use to be 21 or older and a fine or jail time to those who disobey the law?? Smfh same guy wanted to lower voting age to 16

@Code7Unltd

4 жыл бұрын

@@AK1776- That "clown" made that law to expose a double-standard. If you seen the freak-out, then his "phone control" law worked.

I don't know what's worse, segregation or forced integration.

@edman79

4 жыл бұрын

Forced integration of course. As long as the segregation is chosen by the segregated. If certain purple only want to live with their own kind, so be it.

@ThatGuyDownInThe

4 жыл бұрын

@@edman79 Yeah, segregation that is not mandated by the government should be a fine thing.

@12artman

4 жыл бұрын

Almost 40 years ago I was asking the same question and came up with the answer. Yes! (meaning they're both equally "worse")

@homewall744

4 жыл бұрын

If forced, they are equally bad. Liberty and its fruits demand for non-coercion.

@ThatGuyDownInThe

4 жыл бұрын

@@12artman I just hate how the government destroys everything it touches and people are hell bent on making it our overlord.

I applaud the School Choice movements but I also applaud the HomeSchool movement. The latter is focused on the main problem: the Government intervention in education. You can't have a true choice if the Government has the ultimate word about what the children must learn. This is most obvious now with a Government with a lot of leftist-socialist bureaucrats who want to indoctrinated kids.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Actually trying to push religion in public/private schools is indoctrinating children. Using tax dollars to do it would make you un-American.

What's important isn't just your end goal, but rather how you get there. By attempting to take shortcuts, you may lose sight of the truth and from there you shall never reach your goal. -Hirohiko Araki.

I thank god for school choice. It saved my 8 year old son.

@edman79

4 жыл бұрын

And my 11 year old

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

If you're sending your kid to a religious school and your using tax dollars, then you're part of the problem.

@JeremiahHartmanPhotography

2 күн бұрын

@@troywest7045 Actually I'm not sending my kids to a religious school..but if someone wanted to then that would be fine. It should be the parents choice. But the BEST solution is we get rid of excessive taxes so the govt isnt paying for schools and parents can just use THEIR money to send their kids when they think is best.

Anything with "public" in front of it means you are getting screwed with no appeal.

@Macheako

4 жыл бұрын

Rich white men knew this 250 years ago. Today, Rich White Men are the reason it's happening.... Funny rich white men 🤣👌

@homewall744

4 жыл бұрын

Public parks? Public libraries? Public roads? Oh the horrors...

@Dan16673

4 жыл бұрын

@@homewall744 yes mostly shit

@andreanacalhoun5402

4 жыл бұрын

@@Macheako lol rich woman who sent her own to private schools.

@tomknauss570

4 жыл бұрын

@Flynn Parish;..... I might be alone on this, but I think it's much more appealing, when your screwing to have the pubic in front.

Politicians: Sure, no problem, we'll allow choice... *Controlled* choice. 🥴

Matt Welch, you are a gentlemen and a scholar. You make Rothbard, Bawerk, Von Mises and Hayek all very proud. All very well said!

THANK YOU ReasonTV for fighting SO HARD for this. Your videos on school choice are about the only videos i ever see on the matter. WHY can't parents choose where they send their children to school? What's next, the government deciding where a student goes to college? It's just like how we need more transparency in the prices of hospitals and medicine, but the only time i hear about it is either CNN making it sound like a bad idea, or you guys fighting to encourage transparency and competition. PLEASE keep posting and fighting for us whose voices don't reach as many people as yours do.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Separation of Church and State, no religious schools should ever receive a penny of tax dollars

How can anyone be against school choice?

@Anon_1003

4 жыл бұрын

Teacher unions, obviously.

@edman79

4 жыл бұрын

Easy. Money

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Separation of Church and State, no religious schools allowed

Our homeschool group wore the yellow school choice scarves. My daughter wants to wear it everywhere now.

This whole scenario played out in Detroit half a century ago, it didn't work, and it played a huge role in the destruction of the city. There are ample examples of the destructiveness of this type of plan all over the country, so why do they always act like it's going to work?

Kids in Finland have no private schools, so wealthy have to use public schools. The result is high-quality public schools.

People should be free to choose the school they or their kids attend, but religious charter schools should not be getting public money via vouchers paid for by taxpayers.

Wait, did I understand this correctly: parents can't choose their preferred public school for their kids but are instead assigned to one? I find it hard to grasp the complexity of the American education system. I myself live in the Netherlands and don't like our system one bit (very bureaucratic and unmotivating, etc.) but the American system seems even more "harsh". Someome correct me on this if I'm wrong.

@TheFoolintherainn

4 жыл бұрын

Teachers union wants to control the schools - we now have social workers in schools Who work in cahoots with teachers unions. they're basically 26-27 year old abused addicted mentally unstable social workers that come out of college and think they can tell parents how to raise their kids. They need to spread low economic kids and problems throughout the USA so they can keep forcing people into special education and entitlement programs. special education programs in our Public Schools expand union jobs, which means more union dues for the Union bosses Back in the 1990's I had a job where I assessed children - I was paid to fail children's testing, force them into special ed and entitlement programs. We were directed at a staff meeting to target mothers raising children on their own - not necessarily single mothers, but also any mother of low economic stature. we were just specifically seek out women who did not have family or a man in their lives - Women alone raising children are easy to take down. The Liberals in this country gain federal funds and expand jobs by making sure there are always struggling kids at a low economic level They open case files on these families and make their lives hell. And if you don't go along with the program? They will threaten to take your kid. And that's often the goal by putting social workers in public schools... You have to have low economic kids to justify those social workers. - States get up to a quarter million dollars per year for each child They take custody. There are bonuses and financial incentives to adopt kids out, put them in. Government programs... But there are absolutely no Financial incentives to reunite a family. It's all for profit in the USA. schools create fake dossiers That lead to Social Services in the legal system stepping in. Family courts will take custody of a child through these types of entitlement programs, with younger children - they place them in foster care and they can count on federal funds coming in for that child until they're 18 years old. With teenagers, they will take custody of these kids creating fake reports on the mother - and then when they turn 18, they spit them out of the system on to the streets, no education, no skills and their ostracized and alienated from their families. We have a new generation of lost kids living on the streets - they call them runaways... They're not running away directly from their families - they've been spit out of the social service system Or helped by a school social worker to emancipate themselves away from their family. It's a disaster. Family are devastated by this. Then at the last court date for those kids who turn 18 - the judge will announce that there were never any abuse charges to begin with. you see they create an intake sheet when they open a case - they check off every single problem from Drugs, No food in the home, mental abuse... And they submit that for federal funding, before they investigate. And they'll drag out investigations for years. They need social workers in every school possible to create these cases. These federal funds support lawyers, social workers judges multiple non taxable non- contributory pensions. They need to keep expanding the system to support the heavy pensions and benefits. I worked in this industry - when I found out what was going on, I went to the media, politicians and nobody cared. Whistle blowers are not welcome in Liberal States - this was 25 years ago and it's only gotten worse. And it starts in our Public Schools - they need to make sure they spread the low economic kids. So they always have special ed programs and social workers in our public schools now. There's good reason why education in the USA has gone down the tubes... They shove as many kids into special ed programs as possible to collect these Federal funds. They're not teaching them anything. Because liberals rule our legal system - they can get away with this. I don't know if I've answered your question - but this is a situation the USA. The liberal teachers union Rules our children's education - and it's all about money for them. It's sad. If we ever won the war on poverty, starvation, drugs, domestic abuse in this country, The unemployment rate for liberals would go Sky High. Anytime they open up a new program or agency, Put another social worker in a public school, they don't want to fix the problems Or they will lose their jobs.... So they artificially create them. Now perhaps you understand why we voted in a NYC Street Fighter businessman Who made his name by fighting the corruption and standing up for low economic black communities? . I was in and why? During the 1980s and 90s when he was doing this. . He's not a racist... But everything gets twisted and warped according to the liberal agenda. Don't take down anyone from our president to children to get what they want. Because the Liberals in this country are destroying Families and they don't care about children. I don't know if you heard, the lgbtq community Is trying to get pedophilia. as a new sexual orientation and normalize The molestation and raping of children. The Liberals have somehow convinced women to mutilate their bodies with abortions, And with this new live birth abortion law that passed, they have mothers killing their live Healthy Babies. So maybe why you understand why we were so desperate to stop this abuse of our children in public schools, Social Services, our legal system and beyond - we voted for Donald Trump.

What I have children I will never put them anywhere near a public School. I have met public School teachers currently students enrolled in my University and let me say I have very little confidence in their ability to effectively teach the next generation.

*The Left HAS NO LOGISTICAL PLANNING* in anything they propose or say they support. It's a *"Create Emotionally Charged Appeal"* and shovel everything into the pit of despair with fingers crossed while accepting the joke of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Can someone explain to me why Government Workers are allowed to unionize? Kinda doesn't make sense that public servants are allowed to do things that can lead to them draining more money from the taxpayer...

@sujimayne

4 жыл бұрын

Unions are nothing but expression of free speech and free assembly. Government workers are still people.

@psyxypher3881

4 жыл бұрын

@@sujimayne Considering they are being paid by the taxpayer, then you could make an argument that it isn't, because them not doing their jobs and demanding more pay is comparable to theft.

It was never about diversity or care, it was always about control.

If schools were competitive, good teachers would be in high demand and would see their wages rise. See, freedom solves more problems than one.

Bureaucrats have politicised education when it should have been left in the hands of competent pedagogues. It has become a tyranny of low expectations in the name of identity politics.

"Controlled choice"? How oxymoronic...

Public sector unions need to be abolished

I'd love to see a school choice system that doesn't screw over kids that come from families that live below the poverty line. Most school choice systems don't allow for equal opportunity for a quality education for most kids, let alone all kids. And the kids that need the most help end up in schools that are overcrowded and underfunded.

If public schools are so great, why are they worried? People shouldn't be running away from them should they?

Whatever happened to freedom?

@Macheako

4 жыл бұрын

Ya parents sold it, bud. Sorry 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@homewall744

4 жыл бұрын

Ask slaves and natives and women and non-land-owning whites at the founding and you'll have your answer.

@scottpollier

4 жыл бұрын

Home Wall seeing as though they didn’t have freedom back then why is that relevant?

@scottpollier

4 жыл бұрын

Matthew Morton what do you mean?

@klondike99

4 жыл бұрын

Since the 60's the government has been furiously passing law after law to gradually erode all Americans rights. Just like boiling frogs they don't jump out of the pan as the water slowly heats up killing them.

I don't get what the big deal is. Personally I think that if someone wants to send their kids to a non public school then let them, and if people/organizations want to provide scholarships than whatever. Its stupid to believe that someone should not have the opportunities to send a child to a school of their choice. I honestly think that slowly cutting out basic public run schools for more charters and private schools would not only lower the cost of those schools, but also provide better education for students and teachers would be in an environment where they can be fired/held more accountable for poor performance. I live in Illinois where any state employee will pretty much never be fired which is dumb especially if they are bad at their job.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Those private religious schools should not be allowed to receive tax dollars regardless

Reason......bringing the facts

Hey look reason allowed an Ancap to be in a video Great progress.

Reason #153 why New York is depopulating.

Just had to go through the school choice process in San Francisco this year. The schools district suggested I put schools on the other side of the city because it might be easier to get in and it is diverse. Diversity don't pay bills if you can't get to work on time. Is it any wonder people move to districts that default students to the local neighborhood schools?

GO AFTER THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Yikes, a Bernie Sander's ad appeared before I listened to the video!!!

@michaelcap9550

4 жыл бұрын

This is KZread. Shouldn't be surprised.

"YOUR STUDENT MY CHOICE!" 😡 Hands OFF our Kids!!

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Religious schools need not apply

A teacher I know was adamant that allowing parents to exercise school choice disadvantaged some children whose parents may not have been as proactive or as caring as the school choice parents. What!?!

imagine if we ..... better funded public schools..... y'kno, so that they wouldn't be bad..... and Every kid would get their academic needs met....... not just the ones that can afford it.

to complain about your schoolsystem, you should first install one that gives equality in oportunity... unless then, your system is just pay to win.

You can have any color you want as long as it's black

Just get your kids out of public schools and educate yourself.

It would be funny if they weren't buggering up other people's lives.

Its simple. Do you pay property taxes/rent in that district or town? If yes then your kid goes to school there. If not then send them where you pay your taxes/rent.

@wallpello_1534

4 жыл бұрын

And if those schools suck can you choose to not have your property taxes go to them and take that money to another school. Seems like a better solution to me.

The man said he calls them racist Everytime but I call him fascist. Race has nothing to do with this. The special interest of the teachers union does. Hence a close ally of government=fascism. Look up the definition

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Religious schools need not apply

POWER & CONTROL are the words. If parent(s) decide to take their kid out of public schools. Bureaucrats loose control of that kid. Simple - yes?

I’m racist because I want to give my kids the best education I can? Fine, I’m “racist” then.

How progressive of them.

Important family and individual freedoms being blocked by groups of ideologues. School choice should be recognized as a right. Government should facilitate citizens' rights, not coddle unions and special interests.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Religious schools need not apply

Allowing parents to choose their children's schools is meaningless if schools are not allowed to choose their curricula and methods.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Separation of Church and State means they cannot receive a penny of tax dollars if they are a faith based schools.

When prostitutes unionize, does that mean I get the next in line? When that happens do they even have to wear makeup or bathe? Of course, the trans-women will also be included.

Hey, I know that guy's voice!

Children are much better off being homeschooled.

@laurzee

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. My kids are. With the technology available to us, it's easier than ever. My girls are smart, active in our community, and have made many friends in our neighborhood whom they play with almost daily. I love it.

@SteveSmith-fh6br

4 жыл бұрын

As someone who was home schooled, just no.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

I doubt that, most parents I meet are idiots.

A controlled choice works for toddlers. Do you want to wear these pants or these pants? It's insulting as hell to do it to adults.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

It has to be controlled otherwise, it would violate the 1st amendment.

They ought to just start using common sense for policy instead of these new progressive woke ideals. Just allow us the freedom to choose for ourselves, please.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Separation of Church and State isn't a woke ideal, it's the amendment right before your precious gun amendment, in case you were wondering.

Colin Flaherty

Y'all still wanna say the *pledge of allegiance* together 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👌👌👌

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

Which version?

Parent of five. I want school choice!

@orange70383

4 жыл бұрын

Good, then move into that district.

@IrelandVonVicious

4 жыл бұрын

@@orange70383 Already did. But I want it all privatized. Keep these overly liberal teachers away from my kids.

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

​@@IrelandVonViciousSorry if you're religious, but separation of Church and State means religious schools don't get squat in tax dollars

I would love to see someone say to Carranza that "if that's racist then racism can't be all bad". I don't think anyone would have the balls to do it but it would be nice to see him eat those words.

Where rich students go, funding and opportunity follows to the school district. (Wealth is more important than race in my view, but rich students are also usually white students.) That follows regardless of whether the schools are public, private or charter. And that's before factoring in the fact that kids do actually benefit from exposure to people in other income brackets, and races. It either grounds them in reality and grinds down prejudices, or makes them more aspirational. The fact that in America at its most extreme, a rich neighborhood can often just declare independence from a local school district, so their property taxes don't go into neighborhoods that, you know, might actually need money... because "freedom"... that's just insane. And I know it is hypocritical that some parents change their minds for their own kids, but that is like saying you can't be against tax evasion and put money in a trust. I'm unsure where I stand on charter schools, they seem a good thing when well run. But school integration, be it by bussing or designing an equitable school choice system, is an undoubted good thing.

School should be free to every natural born American to those who become American there should be a way for them to earn it by providing a service to the education system

@troywest7045

2 күн бұрын

School is free if it's a public school, private schools shouldn't receive tax dollars, especially religious schools

As a libertarian I wish I could give this a thousand thumbs down. This the second segment from Reason I've seen on school choice and the very question of compulsory, tax-funded schools isn't even raised. Parents who want "school choice" and don't even question the morality of compulsory attendance, truancy laws and taxation deserve to have their kids forced into public schools. But I guess I forgot. Reason isn't really libertarian. It's Republican Lite.

yey, let's segregate

There wouldn't need to be school choice if our public schools were fully funded

@jackprutsman821

4 жыл бұрын

They are funded. They have millions of dollars pumped into them with no difference in student outcomes

@rafaelmeneses5066

4 жыл бұрын

Nicole Baltimore spends 16k per pupil but yet they fail year after year. Money doesn’t solve the problem. Parents do. Local Governments are wasteful to the point that the money doesn’t trickle down to the classroom or the teacher. Additionally parents must hold some responsibility in their child’s future. Don’t expect money to cure issues when even the best teachers run from not so nice places.

@edman79

4 жыл бұрын

Nicole, you have no idea what you're talking about.