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For each student, the church that runs it receives over $10,000 per year. And that money comes directly out of the state's public education budget.

Yes, 1 billion dollars in total in Texas ... out of 89.4 billion dollars total for education.

Wait, not even out of. Compared to. Check my quote again:

Altogether, public schools in Texas received $89.4 billion in funding, or $16,200 per student.

Remember Wheatley High School? Well, the voucher scheme has almost certainly made things worse for them because in just the last year, Houston area public schools lost 8,000 students to vouchers. That's $68 million in funding gone from their public education in one year.

Thanks for the disclaimer "almost certainly" ...

The following quote is only applicable to Houston, not the wider area:

For the 2026-27 school year, there are 767 public schools serving 539,962 students in Houston, TX (there are 289 private schools, serving 59,877 private students). 90% of all K-12 students in Houston, TX are educated in public schools (compared to the TX state average of 94%).

Best Houston Public Schools
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/texas/houston

Public schools, 704 students per school. Private schools, 207 students.

Public schools, 16 200 dollars state funding per year. Private schools, 10 474 dollars funding per year.

The private schools are cheaper for the state and give better results, simply from being smaller. But by existing, they make public schools smaller too.

Now, GMS is hopping from Houston to Tori Gessner's report on Tennessee:

According to the Tennessee Department of Education, 9,360 of the 15,000 newly available vouchers went to students in the program's third-priority category, where a family of four could make up to $173,000 per year.

In addition, 3,970 of the new vouchers went to students from families eligible for free or reduced-price school meals. For a family of four, that generally means earning about $61,000 annually or less.

Majority of new vouchers went to higher-income families this school year, state data shows
Tori Gessner | Thu, August 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM GMT+2
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-vouchers-went-higher-income-222658438.html

Family of four up to 61 000 per year 3 970 / 15 000 = 26.47 %.
Family of four up to 173 000 per year 9360 / 15 000 = 62.4 %

So, 88.87 % to families of four below 173 000 per year, whereof 26.47 % to families of four below 61 000 per year.

Or to Louisiana.

In Louisiana, 99% of school vouchers go to families which earn more than $200,000 per year.

Thus GMS.

Voucher tax credits reimburse individuals and businesses for “donations” they make to organizations that give out vouchers for free or reduced tuition at private K-12 schools—the overwhelming majority of which are religious in nature.

...

In all three states providing data—Arizona, Louisiana, and Virginia—more than half of all voucher tax credits are flowing to families with annual incomes over $200,000.

Tax Avoidance Continues to Fuel School Privatization Efforts
ITEP | March 3, 2023 | Brief • Carl Davis
https://itep.org/tax-avoidance-fuels-school-vouchers-privatization-efforts/

So no, the thing that goes to these high income families (anaesthesiologist, roof layer, successful author ... if it's one income) isn't vouchers, it's voucher tax credits. Given to those making donations. It can be seen from Tennessee that those getting vouchers (i e contributions to schooling) are actually poorer than that. They are not high income, but middle income.

A single person is middle income from $40,100 to $120,200; a household of four from $80,100 to $240,400.

The width of the band never changes in relative terms: the upper bound is always three times the lower one. The level is what moves. Going from one person to four doubles both bounds, because the square root of four is two. A household with $85,000 a year is middle income if one person lives on it and lower income if five do.

Middle Class Income Range in the US, by Household Size
https://eco3min.fr/en/middle-class-income-range-by-household-size/

The Louisiana study didn't mention how large the families with "more than $200,000 per year" were. Large families are often interested in private schools by having many children, and large families with "more than $200,000 per year" aren't necessarily high income.

If Jesus was born today, you would bomb him or lock him up or destroy his childhood school all in his own name.

His childhood school? Well, He was a homeschooler, it would seem.

And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me
[John 7:15-16]

Now, someone has tried to deny this:

Did Jesus Go To School? What Did His Education Likely Include?
Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 9:15 am by Jack Wellman
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2015/10/22/did-jesus-go-to-school-what-did-his-education-likely-include/

Apparently Joshua ben Gamliel instituted rules regulating schools and this was likely very formalized by the time Jesus was a youth as by age six or seven, all Jewish boys were expected to begin their education. Just as in schools today the boys were taught reading by drawing letters on a board.

By the time Jesus was a youth? Seriously?

JOSHUA BEN GAMLA (d. 69/70 C.E.), a high priest in the last years of the Second Temple. Joshua was married to one of the wealthiest women of Jerusalem, *Martha, daughter of Boethus (Yev. 6:4; ibid., 61a; Yoma 18a and Tos. ibid.; Git. 56a). He is apparently to be identified with the Joshua b. Gamaliel referred to by Josephus (Ant., 20:213) as a high priest appointed by *Agrippa II. In common with the high priests at the end of the Second Temple period Joshua, too, was appointed to office because of his wealth. Although most of the others were deprecated in rabbinic literature, Joshua was singled out for praise for his establishing a universal system of education after all previous attempts failed. He evolved a system whereby "teachers of young children be appointed in each district and each town," whereas previously they were to be found only in Jerusalem. ... Josephus, who describes Joshua as his intimate friend (Life, 204), says he was one of the most vehement opponents of the extremist Zealots at the time of the Roman War (Wars, 4:160). ...

Joshua ben Gamla
Jewish Virtual Library, Biographies
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joshua-ben-gamla

No, Jesus was a homeschooler.

And all Christians aren't Zionists who bomb schools in Palestine. In fact, not even all Zionists endorse that. But not all Christians are Zionists in the first place. Not even those who love private schools. Just ask some Trad Catholics!

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Rusticus of Narbonne
26.X.2026

Narbone, in Gallia, sancti Rustici, Episcopi et Confessoris; qui claruit temporibus Valentiniani et Leonis Imperatorum.