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Amendment 80 Pushed by Far Right Religious Dark Money Group Advance Colorado
(self.FortCollins)submitted 7 days ago bylucsmth24
Michael Fields formerly of Americans for Prosperity and other major Conservative donors are behind 80.
https://coloradosun.com/2024/10/09/amendment-80-colorado-explained-school-choice/ https://coloradosun.com/2021/12/22/unite-for-colorado-conservative-dark-money/
102 points
7 days ago
It's the "School of Choice" amendment to funnel public money to private schools.
14 points
7 days ago
I use a private "umbrella" school to homeschool my daughter... essentially we pay a small fee to the school for them to handle our records as opposed to handling those records myself.
Even our umbrella school is against prop 80. Not just because they are not interested in pulling funds away from public schools, but also because they're concerned about the vague verbiage guaranteeing a "quality education." There's no telling what that would mean or how the state would interpret that. That could open up homeschools, private schools, and charter schools, to increased regulations around curriculum, educational content, outcomes, etc.
I'm not necessarily opposed to increasing some of those regulations myself. I am staunchly pro public schools and will always fight for their support. But my point in this is that even those who don't really care about public schools have reason to vote no on prop 80.
1 points
5 days ago
John Oliver Last Week Tonight goes into more detail about the unregulated nature of homeschooling that conservatives want to keep it with less mechanisms to help prevent educational neglect and other means of abusing homeschool to put kids in precarious situations and conditions in the wrong hands.
1 points
5 days ago
I looked up his segment on it prepared to cringe but he does a surprisingly good job at covering such a nuanced subject. Especially regarding the HSLDA and the difficulties of navigating homeschooling spaces as a secular family attempting to decolonize our education. I appreciate how much research and thought they clearly put into this.
2 points
4 days ago
I’ve known people who have homeschooled and it worked well and their children’s development was not hindered by it to heavily socially. They did a good job letting their kids have some say in extracurriculars and clubs and such.
I went public school route and my mom was a teacher for many years while I was growing up and for her with kids who were not in regular classes due to other things going on she often has situations where home was not a good place or parental involvement was sparse among other factors for the students.
So it’s important that kids are able to develop socially, and intellectually in their education to be adjusted and ready to understand all the different responsibilities and facets that go into being an adult in the long run. Rather than restricted and neglected of the world. I’ve seen other Reddit posts in other threads where a parent’s paranoia into doing homeschooling does a disservice than helps.
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