The Republicans ultimate goal is to ram through voucher programs as a means to essentially strangle out funding to public schools, the piece of shit Greg Abbott here in Texas is making that his primary agenda next year:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11...chers-funding/
In Texas some of their cities rank in the top 5 nationally for least literate:
https://time.com/9549/the-5-least-li...es-in-america/
It's a travesty how these Republicans believe in stifling funding for public institutions, the above is an example of those results, I've actually been quite surprised by the lack of education in this state from my anecdotal observations through benign conversations.
Sure countries in Europe have higher taxes, yet on average people can fluently speak 2-4 different languages. A robust public education system is paramount to the future of any advanced civilization, it's frankly disgusting you have people running government with the short sighted mentality of only enriching themselves in the present, and fuck the future entirely.