The life path conservatives want to teach in schools: Graduate, marry, have kids
February 26, 2026
At Vertex Partnership Academies, a New York charter school where most students are Black or Hispanic and from low-income families, children are taught there is a formula they can follow to avoid poverty in the future.
“It’s not something that’s only available to the rich, the famous,” their teacher Ryan Badolato tells the high-schoolers in a promotional video. “It’s something that’s available to all of us.”
