James Finn
1 min readAug 20, 2022

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Another way the Florida taxpayers help this school and many more like it is through private school education vouchers. Florida gives parents under a certain income level (nowhere near the poverty level, by the way) tuition vouchers if they take their kids out of public school and put them in private schools, including private religious schools.

Historically, it's interesting to note that many of these schools started as segregation academies, designed for parents who didn't want their white children going to school with Black children. Private, conservative Christian elementary and secondary schools didn't start taking off until desegregation, and that's why they started taking off.

Now, the same schools are used to keep LGBTQ students out, and the taxpayer often foots the bill.

In another recent case making headlines, a private Christian school kicked out a five year old whose parents died. Her new parents, one of whom is her lesbian aunt, wanted her in the same school for continuity during a very traumatic part of her life.

The school said no. If you have queer parents, you are not welcome here. Get out.

Really.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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