School vouchers

[SHRED]

Let's call them what they really are...government handouts. If parents want to send their kids to a private school then so beit but I will be damned if I want my tax dollars subsidizing the unaccountable private sector.

The word 'voucher' needs to be called 'handout'.

[mbperrin]

1. Yes. In fact, in our area, private school enrollment stayed the same

after the state agreed to pay so much towards tuition at "charter" schools. Same kids there, just paying less.

[Esse Quam Videri]

2. I agree totally.

The teabagger school board and superintendent here in Douglas County are so bent on getting school vouchers pushed through (they are currently blocked by a court injunction) that they are willing to totally destroy the school system via overcrowded classes, reduction in curriculum, and driving teachers away so people will come to the "realization" that the only way their kids can get a good education is through private schools subsidized by vouchers.

[HockeyMom]

3. If they can hire staff

Who want to get a 4 year college degree, state certification, to make $25,000 a year, mandatory in school 12 hour days, WITH years of teaching experience. Or how about a TA, also with at least 2 year degree, making $8/hour, working 6 hour days, WITH experience. Can you say Welcome to Walmart? Charters have to make PROFITS and this is how they do it; slave wages and your TAX $'s.

[leftyohiolib]

4. i dont understand how the people against abortion can say "i dont want my tax dollars to goto

abortion" and so government money doesnt go there but i cant say i dont want my tax dollars going to school vouchers

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Vouchers rarely cover all the costs

I went to private schools. On scholarship. So my parents didn't have to pay tuition, but the extras - book fees, meals, activity fees, etc - about broke them.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Even better: "Kickbacks to politicized 'religion'"--80 percent of

"private" schools are religious schools

[RandySF]

7. ok

Come back to me when your kindergarden-age son comes home hurt on a regular basis because of bullies. Then you deal with a principal who is incompetent and has to be dragged kicking and screaming just to take half-measures. After that fails, go to the placement office where they refuse to place him into one of the safer schools they're full and offer to either place him back in the old school or one that's actually worse. Then try to find a private school and only manage to get him in one because he is lucky enough to earn a scholarship. Your views on vouchers might change dramatically.