Jonathan Grieder

I gotta tell you I haven’t heard anything about why I should vote for Josh Turek. All I see are surrogates sh****ng on Zach Wahls. Let’s be clear it’s not policy differences, it’s personal and dirty. Some one’s gonna win in June. But I gotta tell you one side is spending a lot of time building hard feelings that’ll make it hard to vote in November for their guy.

Well at least we’re saying the quiet parts out loud now. As many of us have known the ESA program in Iowa was never about school choice. It was about subsidizing segregation. It’s very clear from the language that they don’t want parents choosing where to send their kids, but schools choosing students who make them look good. Fact of the matter is this if you accept public money to run a school you should have to run like a public school. You take public money you take the public, not just whoever fits your mold. If your school doesn’t want to do that, fair, fine, you just don’t get any public money. Our public schools are doing amazing work with students who come from so many different backgrounds. If private schools can’t handle educating every child, they shouldn’t get handed everyone’s money.