The First Domino to Fall: James Fedderman of VEA on Youngkin & What's At Stake in The Fight For Public Education Algorithmically Inconvenient
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One of the first areas attacked by Republicans & reactionaries in the wake of Nixon & the Southern Strategy is public education. Though not obvious at first, it is the first interaction with a commons that we have in America. Public schools and education allow for communities, students, teachers, counselors, administrators, & support staff to exist in a space where money (should) be no object. It is ground where communities can shape their future and set goals for what they want to become.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is committed to the privatization of education not only as a pillar of Republican ideology, but as a financial benefit for venture capital funds like the Carlyle Group that he belonged to before running for governor of Virginia. In privatizing education not only is the idea that public schools, and therefore government, is inherently unable to solve our problems normalized, from that point on money can be given to private institutions. In steps religious private schools. In Carson v Makin (20-1088), the Supreme Court ruled on a 6-3 line that private religious schools are entitled to public funds. This case stems from a voucher system for public schools in Maine. Maine, following the long understood meaning of “religious liberty” in the First Amendment, denied funds to private religious institutions as it would be the United States government effectively establishing a religion.
Due to the unserious nature of Democratic opposition to this reactionary and theocratic movement over the last 50 years, what would have once been considered anathema has become settled law. The implications of this decision are yet to be fully fleshed out, but rest assured the “separation of church and state” in the United States has fallen. Through a 6-3 majority, the reactionary and theocratic Supreme Court appointed by a party that hasn’t won the popular vote since 2004, is reshaping nearly the entirety of American life.
In Virginia, Republicans have been salivating at the prospect of privatizing education as they believe it will work in the northern Virginia suburbs around DC along within the capital, seven cities, & the disparate rural western section of the state. This destruction of the last of the commons that exists within American society is what is necessary for the Republican project to take hold. In destroying our faith in our collective ability to educate ourselves, in deciding what’s true or even how to fund & organize such a mission as educating children, Republicans hope to steal away the liberty from ignorance that FDR spoke of in his second bill of rights.
In this episode, the first of the season, I sit down with Dr. James Fetterman, the President of the Virginia Education Association to discuss the role of education in all of our lives & communities. We break down Republican’s & Glenn Youngkin’s proposals in the 2022 budget for education. We also dissect the now infamous Education Report that was conducted on an executive order by Youngkin.
One of the first areas attacked by Republicans & reactionaries in the wake of Nixon & the Southern Strategy is public education. Though not obvious at first, it is the first interaction with a commons that we have in America. Public schools and education allow for communities, students, teachers, counselors, administrators, & support staff to exist in a space where money (should) be no object. It is ground where communities can shape their future and set goals for what they want to become.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is committed to the privatization of education not only as a pillar of Republican ideology, but as a financial benefit for venture capital funds like the Carlyle Group that he belonged to before running for governor of Virginia. In privatizing education not only is the idea that public schools, and therefore government, is inherently unable to solve our problems normalized, from that point on money can be given to private institutions. In steps religious private schools. In Carson v Makin (20-1088), the Supreme Court ruled on a 6-3 line that private religious schools are entitled to public funds. This case stems from a voucher system for public schools in Maine. Maine, following the long understood meaning of “religious liberty” in the First Amendment, denied funds to private religious institutions as it would be the United States government effectively establishing a religion.
Due to the unserious nature of Democratic opposition to this reactionary and theocratic movement over the last 50 years, what would have once been considered anathema has become settled law. The implications of this decision are yet to be fully fleshed out, but rest assured the “separation of church and state” in the United States has fallen. Through a 6-3 majority, the reactionary and theocratic Supreme Court appointed by a party that hasn’t won the popular vote since 2004, is reshaping nearly the entirety of American life.
In Virginia, Republicans have been salivating at the prospect of privatizing education as they believe it will work in the northern Virginia suburbs around DC along within the capital, seven cities, & the disparate rural western section of the state. This destruction of the last of the commons that exists within American society is what is necessary for the Republican project to take hold. In destroying our faith in our collective ability to educate ourselves, in deciding what’s true or even how to fund & organize such a mission as educating children, Republicans hope to steal away the liberty from ignorance that FDR spoke of in his second bill of rights.
In this episode, the first of the season, I sit down with Dr. James Fetterman, the President of the Virginia Education Association to discuss the role of education in all of our lives & communities. We break down Republican’s & Glenn Youngkin’s proposals in the 2022 budget for education. We also dissect the now infamous Education Report that was conducted on an executive order by Youngkin.