Is It Really a Choice?

If you think the school choice movement and policies are about allowing parents to use tax dollars to get the best education for their children, you’d better listen to this episode to hear what’s really going on. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square as they show the link between segregation academies of the Jim Crow South era and the systemic racism behind today’s proposed school choice policies. Though these policies could potentially re-create highly segregated schools, listeners will learn the surprising hidden purpose and true end game that exposes school choice as the ultimate bait and switch tactic. Go to https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ to get the history they didn’t teach you in school. CitationsAre US Taxpayers Funding Modern Segregation Academies In North Carolina?Charter Schools and Segregation: What the Research Says - FutureEdChoice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights StandardsDemocracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for AmericaDoes Integration Still Matter in Public Schools? | Separate and Unequal | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official SiteExposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected - The AtlanticHow Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public EducationIn Indiana, school choice means segregation - kappanonline.orgIn the 1950s, rather than integrate some public schools, Virginia closed them | Race | The GuardianMassive Resistance – Encyclopedia VirginiaMassive Resistance in a Small Town | The National Endowment for the HumanitiesRacism and the Charter School Movement: Unveiling the MythsReparations Are Possible—They Happened in Virginia - Pacific StandardSchools are still segregated, and black children are paying a price | Economic Policy InstituteSegregation academy - WikipediaThe Closing of Prince Edward County's Schools | Virginia Museum of History & CultureThe Ongoing Debate Over School Choicep>

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support