Republicans want to privatize schools

The gift that the Republican Legislature is giving the rich in Iowa in the form of paid tuition is an obvious choice to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. If you want to pay tuition, move to the East coast where going to public schools is not a choice because funding has been decimated. If you want a good education for your kids, you have to pay and send them to private schools.

The reason the Republican leadership wants to drain the public school budget is to do what they did with Iowa’s mental health facilities, and Medicaid services, make them private. Look what they did to Medicaid and Mount Pleasant and Clarinda mental health facilities. They had years to improve or address the situations at those facilities to make them better. Instead they did nothing. They closed them and privatized their services.

Why employ Iowans to do those jobs when you can give the money to your friends in private corporations? Represent your friends in large corporations and make them richer and let Iowans who you are supposed to represent send their kids to unsupported poor schools and give tax money to private schools to support your wealthy friends.

As every Iowa kid tries to climb the ladder of success and get ahead; there is a Republican stepping on their hands and kicking them in the face to keep them down where they think they belong.

Joel Wells

Iowa City

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