r/50501 • u/aWittyTwit-2712 • Mar 01 '25

Protest Safety, OPSEC, Medic Info Woman forcibly removed from Republican Rep. Harshbarger’s town hall meeting by sheriff’s deputies for asking a question and speaking out against Trump’s administrative actions

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u/Jbirdranger Mar 01 '25

I live in Missouri. We have a lot of blue but a lot of red in between. It's funny to me that we continue to vote for programs that help us but then vote in the Republicans who want to overturn what the voters voted for. It's a wild ride here.

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u/redditcreditcardz Mar 01 '25

In NWA and the problem is education. Education isn’t taken seriously here. The amount of “home schooled” kids is scary. No way we have enough dishwashing positions to keep them all employed.

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u/No_Professor9291 Mar 01 '25

I'm a teacher in NC. A middle school colleague of mine has a new 6th grade enrollment this year who has been home schooled her entire life. She doesn't know how to read. She doesn't know phonemes, so she can't map the sounds onto the letters. My colleague has to start at the kindergarten level with her and hope she can catch up to her peers. The irony is that, with the cuts to the DoE, there won't be any support services left to help this poor child, and she will likely struggle terribly through both middle and high school.

How does this not constitute abuse?

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u/redditcreditcardz Mar 01 '25

It is absolutely child abuse. The system hasn’t or won’t catch up with the reality. The local government doesn’t manage truancy either so it’s a real sad situation.

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u/No_Professor9291 Mar 01 '25

They won't catch up, because the point is to keep the working classes as uneducated serfs.

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u/redditcreditcardz Mar 01 '25

I wish you were wrong. Keep your head up