‘This Ain’t It’: Pennsylvanians Slam Jay-Z’s Roc Nation for School Voucher Push | “An out-of-state billionaire is pairing with a suburban Philadelphia one to try to destroy public education,” said one critic.

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1. “Just to be clear for those not in Pennsylvania, the legislation Jay-Z is supporting here is a Republican-led effort to gut public education.”

2. Why can’t these mofos just pay taxes to improve public schools instead of promoting a scheme to privatize education which essentially by definition will leave children and educators alike with short-ends of the stick?

   Giving public money to private schools makes no damn sense! Rich people get to send their kids to private school all they want! But this shell game of taking public money (which these rich assholes avoid sharing) to fund those private schools which then get to avoid public standards of education is bullshit!

   Why run “private money” through the government? It’s “conservatives” creating bureaucracy which they claim to hate.

3. As the great Nas once said, Man fcuk Jay Z!

4. Watch moderate/centrist party leaders back this move and then gaslight complaining progressives for letting “perfection be the enemy of the good.”

   School vouchers and charter schools are no different than vouchers for Christian schools

5. Umm. Note to Jay-z.. the school system is already gutted. They workshopped it J6.

6. Gee, the same guy who joined another billionaire to help disadvantaged minorities invest in cryptocurrency.

7. All billionaires have to do to maximize good in the world is to pay significantly more taxes.

8. Dude has been out of touch with the common man for decades.

9. Hey look….just another black man taking advantage of his people instead of lifting them up.

10. Jay Z might be getting some bad advice from a rich Republican friend

11. [With your hands out for my money, man, how much can I take?](https://youtu.be/zfyQ8muKLdc?si=5XilwMBSH4j2A2fX)

12. Guy who grew up selling drugs and became a billionaire rapping about gangster shit has a problem with public schools?

13. Quite frankly, I don’t think the privatization of education can be stopped. Both parties support it to some degree.

14. What is it with people who’ve climbed a ladder with odds stacked against them trying to pull it up behind them?

15. Fuck Jay.

16. I think he confused Charter schools with Carter schools