The policy research group Texas 2036 analyzed the state’s enrollment data and projected that about 100,000 fewer students would attend public schools by the end of the current decade.
Hispanic students accounted for 81% of this school year’s enrollment drop. Over the past year, federal and state leaders increased anti-immigration rhetoric, in some cases detaining Texas students and prompting fear across communities.
Texas educates 5.5 million public school students, 53% of whom are Hispanic, 24% are white and 13% are Black.
By design:
- threaten any undocumented students with arrest
- hand out private school vouchers
- underfund public education by having its taxes go directly to the state “general fund”
- underpay your teachers so all you are left with is babysitters
- overcrowd your classrooms
- ban books, fire all your school librarians
- legislate replacement of history with conservative propaganda and religious dogma
So if you want your kid to actually get an education in Texas, you can no longer send them to public school.
Between ICE, school shootings, antivax idiots, and us “woke” not wanting kids because of the state of the world, this should not be a surprise to anyone
It’s not just ICE here. The Texas education system is 3-years into a takeover by governor Greg Abbott. Under his take-over, quality of education has been plummeting. Just about all day is spent on computers, with writing only graded by AI. The results on education have been devastating. Students are often 3 years behind grade level in all subjects.
Texas parents who care about their kids’ education, and who have the money to pull their kids out, will be sending their kids to private school. This is by design, to justify Greg Abbott’s school voucher program, wherein there are no public schools, and families are instead given a voucher from the state, and told to kick rocks if they can’t afford private school.
This is what conservatives want for the entire country, by the way
Hence why they abolished the Department of Education in 2025; and why Trump’s 2017 pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools. She also had that really awkward testimony with Senator Chris Murphy (representing Newtown) about how schools might need guns to protect kids from “grizzly [bears]”.
“Skool be makin’ my childrun libruhl.”
I think it’s more like “if I send my kid to school, ICE might kidnap them”
It’s mostly this, but the other too.
Again, by design.
Shame. I feel bad for Texas children. They’ll be lucky to graduate high school knowing how to tie their shoes.
Thankfully, the US public school system isn’t the only place you can obtain an education.
