{"id":46381,"date":"2023-06-28T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46381"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T18:19:33","slug":"school-choice-lying-liars-and-the-lies-they-lie-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/school-choice-lying-liars-and-the-lies-they-lie-about\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice: Lying Liars and the Lies They Lie About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Some people wonder why Democrats continue to stand in the schoolhouse doors and refuse to let low-income, minority children escape from the liberal government indoctrination camps and inner-city failure factories commonly referred to as our \u201cpublic schools.\u201d
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It\u2019s really quite simple.
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Democrats know that if those low-income, minority children are allowed to attend a private school of their choice, they\u2019re liable to get a better education and learn to think for themselves instead of blindly and unquestioningly following the \u201cwoke\u201d crowd.
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And if that happens, they won\u2019t vote for Democrats when they grow up.\u00a0
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So it\u2019s all about political self-preservation, not \u201cfor the children.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019re holding these kids hostage while providing government education bureaucrats and the powerful teachers unions aid-and-comfort.\u00a0
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Politically-speaking, ignorance is Democrat bliss.
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And in their minds, the ends justify the means.\u00a0 So they have no reservations whatsoever about telling the most blatant lies about school choice imaginable.\u00a0 In fact, they and their media propaganda allies are absolutely shameless in telling whoppers.
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For example, during the recently-ended session of the Nevada Legislature \u2013 in which Republican Gov.\u00a0Joe Lombardo\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0proposal for a modest increase in the funding for Opportunity Scholarships didn\u2019t even get a fair hearing, let alone a vote by the Democrats who control both houses \u2013 Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Nicole Cannizzaro<\/strong>\u00a0actually said\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cOur first obligation as legislators is to fund our public schools\u2026\u201d<\/em>
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No it\u2019s not. The obligation is to fund public\u00a0EDUCATION<\/u>.\u00a0
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And that obligation can be fulfilled by non-government owned and operated private schools which, in many cases, do a heckuva better job.\u00a0 I mean, to tackle hunger, we don\u2019t force low-income people to shop at a government grocery store.\u00a0 We give them food stamps to use in\u00a0PRIVATE<\/u>\u00a0grocery stores.
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Can you just imagine what a government-run grocery store would look like in your neighborhood?!!
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Which brings us to left-winger\u00a0Annette Magnus<\/strong>\u00a0of Battle Born Progress, who majored in Stupidity at some liberal arts college and chooses to call Opportunity Scholarships \u201cvouchers\u201d even though they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n


Annette “Chicken Lady” Magnus<\/em><\/p>\n


\u201cThe reason why vouchers are so problematic is that they go to those who already have money, who usually already have the means to go to a private school,\u201d the walking chicken nugget cluck, cluck, clucked.\u00a0
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\u201cIt\u2019s essentially a coupon for kids who can already afford to go to a private school and get some money off of going to that private school,\u201d the\u00a0Dina Titus<\/strong>\u00a0mini-me burbled.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not going to the young people who need the most in our communities.\u201d
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna take two hands to handle that whopper!
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Opportunity Scholarships do\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0go to \u201cthose who already have money\u201d and \u201cthe means to go to that private school.\u201d\u00a0 Opportunity Scholarships are restricted to low- and middle-income families who \u201cneed the most in our communities.\u201d
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\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a program that funds low-income students,\u201d\u00a0Erin Phillips<\/strong>\u00a0of Power2Parent accurately explains about Opportunity Scholarships.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re allowing low-income students an opportunity to have a quality education.\u201d
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And why doesn\u2019t the media challenge prevaricators like Magnus – who tell such bald-faced lies – and ask if they oppose giving \u201cfood coupons\u201d to poor people that are used at private grocery stores?
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Because they\u2019re in on the kidnapping.\u00a0 And perhaps the worst offender and unindicted co-conspirator is the Pravda-like Las Vegas SUN.
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In an end-of-session editorial, the SUN parroted the Magnus claim that Opportunity Scholarships were \u201cprivate-school vouchers\u201d \u2013 because I\u2019m sure they\u2019ve poll-tested the verbiage and found \u201cvoucher\u201d to be a naughty word even though the scholarships aren\u2019t \u201cvouchers.\u201d
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The editorial went on to claim Gov. Lombardo lacked \u201cany identifiable mandate from the public\u201d for expanding Opportunity Scholarships.\u00a0 Um, two things\u2026
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One, Lombardo campaigned on expanding school choice options, including an increase in Opportunity Scholarship funding. And, um, he was elected.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re an idiot, that\u2019s considered a public mandate.
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Secondly, the most recent polling out there on this issue showed that over 70 percent of Nevadans support Opportunity Scholarships.\u00a0 Again, here on Planet Reality, that\u2019s considered a pretty strong mandate.
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Unable to counter the common-sense arguments in favor of Opportunity Scholarships, the SUN then resorts to personal attacks, referring to Gov. Lombardo as a \u201cpetty political opportunist\u201d and accused him of \u201cpolitical barbarism.\u201d
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At least we know their \u201cThesaurus\u201d button is working.
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They then mimicked Magnus\u2019 talking points by claiming Lombardo was just trying \u201cto please his wealthy donors\u201d and giving \u201ctaxpayer dollars to rich people\u201d even though Opportunity Scholarships are restricted to low-income families.\u00a0
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I mean, you could look it up.\u00a0 According to the Nevada Department of Education\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cStudents whose family income does not exceed 300% of the federal poverty guidelines are eligible for the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship.\u201d<\/em>
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For a family of four, that means the cut-off limit is an annual combined income of just $83,250. And most qualifying families earn far less than that. So anyone claiming those families are \u201cwealthy, rich people\u201d is just lying through their teeth.\u00a0
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It\u2019s as clear as the beak on Annette\u2019s face.
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In fact, according to Transparent Nevada, Sen. Cannibizzaro herself \u2013 a government employee \u2013 hauled in almost double that number in 2020, with her pay and benefit package totaling a whopping $152,181.27!
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It\u2019s shameless for racists such as Cannibizzaro, her fellow Democrats, goofball left-wingers, and their amen corner in the media to deny minority children in low-income families the same educational opportunities they enjoy.
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But voters are starting to catch on.\u00a0 The lies aren\u2019t working any longer.\u00a0 People now see through them.\u00a0 School choice is spreading like a wildfire across the fruited plain.
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And with any luck, there will be a reckoning at Nevada ballot boxes next year.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cIf you could get your kid to postpone college for a year and go work in pure, hardcore direct sales\u2026the education of the year in sales would be infinitely more useful to him than the four years that he\u2019s going to get in college.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Dan Kennedy<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 Some people wonder why Democrats continue to stand in the schoolhouse doors and refuse to let low-income, minority children escape from the liberal government indoctrination camps and inner-city failure factories commonly referred to as our \u201cpublic schools.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s really quite simple.\u00a0Democrats know that if those low-income, minority children are allowed to attend a private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46383,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46381\/revisions\/46383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}