Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books

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[+] 35 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They are just turning schools into prisons. They want locked doors, armed guards, and displinary centers? Sounds like prison

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Let's be honest here, this isn't their real goal, they want to turn all of Texas into a prison unless you're rich.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @InverseParallax @halferect

    Privately run prison(s) ... to make up for their waning oil revenues.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    They've also found a loophole. They can't technically institute slavery, but they can make prisoners work for essentially free which to them is the next best thing. Make it illegal to be poor, privatize the prisons, and bam, modern day plantations complete with a slave workforce. Even better from their perspective they don't even need to buy the slaves, they get them for free.

    Profiting off of prisoners should be illegal. Private prisons should be illegal. It's utterly ridiculous how much of the US population is incarcerated compared to literally any other country in the world.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Fun fact: In Norway, "Texas" is used as slang for a crazy or chaotic situation.

    For example, if a group of Tunnel Snakes got into a fight with some nuns on the bus, you could say "det var helt Texas på bussen i dag", meaning "it was totally Texas on the bus today."

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    When stupid decision are made here in my country, I think we are the biggest idiots in the world. But watching this kind of news shows that entire world is getting dumb.

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    [–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I cannot imagine that any politician wants to deny access to knowledge. Something doesn't make sense about it and I suspect the story is one-sided.

    Is there a possibility that they plan to use digital books in the future and consider libraries a waste of space or something like that?

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