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Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago

They conflate their actions with their selfhood. It's the same argument used in East Ramapo.

https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/school-district-harms-its-own-kids-rocklands-east-ramapo-central-district-falling-apart

When non-Orthodox oppose the dismantling of the district and the distribution of funds to private schools, we are accused of being antisemitic.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

This story I insane.

For more than seven years, 10,000 public school students — almost entirely children of color — in the East Ramapo Central School District just 40 miles north of New York City have had lead in their school water fountains.

In 2005 the area’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish majority — whose children almost entirely attend private yeshivas — organized and won control of the school board. In 2009, the new board began gutting the public schools, whose students are 95% Black and Latinx.

The board eliminated hundreds of public school positions, including teachers, social workers, and more, while authorizing eye-popping millions of taxpayer funds to the district’s private religious schools, including door-to-door, gender-segregated busing for students.

Among the ongoing obstacles to fixing the district’s problems is that the district’s religious-school voters consistently reject public school budgets. Over the past 15 years, school budget tax increases have failed 11 times in East Ramapo — more than any other district in the state.

It's crazy that this can happen. In my kids school district, a guy keeps getting reelected to the board who's kids all went to private school. Thank God he can get the "Trans" books out of the library whole education has declined for years.

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