Joshua Weishart
@joshuaweishart.bsky.social
Dad to school kids, husband to school teacher, professor to law students. Focused on education rights
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I'm sorry I keep posting this but truly if privatization wins, none of the other current education policy battles will matter, we will all lose.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
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What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
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November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm sorry I keep posting this but truly if privatization wins, none of the other current education policy battles will matter, we will all lose.
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
Education is fundamentally a belief that people can change. Even the most immoral among us can believe in that possibility, which is why they frequently try to convince people they cannot.
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Education is fundamentally a belief that people can change. Even the most immoral among us can believe in that possibility, which is why they frequently try to convince people they cannot.
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Had the privilege to attend this timely and thoughtful symposium today and came away even more convinced that there's a larger project we can and should be undertaking collectively in these times.
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Had the privilege to attend this timely and thoughtful symposium today and came away even more convinced that there's a larger project we can and should be undertaking collectively in these times.
Education is fundamentally a belief that people can change. Even the most immoral among us can believe in that possibility, which is why they frequently try to convince people they cannot.
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Education is fundamentally a belief that people can change. Even the most immoral among us can believe in that possibility, which is why they frequently try to convince people they cannot.
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.
Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular!
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.
As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.
Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular!
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.
Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular!
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular!
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
Sound familiar?
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sound familiar?
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Sound familiar?
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sound familiar?
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
Same goes for Dem senators
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Same goes for Dem senators
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
Reposted by Joshua Weishart
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
2. Censorship
3. Privatization
Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?
Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.