What if my public school sucks? It’s not your tax dollars—it’s ours. Why can’t parents use a portion of theirs to choose another school? The idea that private schools won’t accept kids with special needs is simply untrue. My child has autism and behavioral issues, and several private options exist.
Tax money is used for public schools that will benefit the community. If you don’t like public schools, it’s your choice to send and pay for private school
Agreed! I have one in Public and one in Private (extremely expensive). When my elementary student is in middle school, I’ll have two in private because the middle/HS is awful. With the amt of money for private, funding should go to public only. The private is basically what my college tuition was.
Private schools select and scholarship self starters that will do well anywhere so to boost their standardized test scores. Then charge huge tuition to average and below students. Private schools don't have the same standards & often have uncertified teachers. They underpay staff and overpay Admin
Not according to Greg fing Abbott. Going for the 6 th vote to get the $6,600 for private schools Pay teachers Pay $15,000 per year per student. All meals
Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time! Start NOW!!
How do we stop this atrocity from happening now we talked about it before the election. Only problem is we’ve got the dumbest pieces of shit living in this country.
Same thing happening in Alberta. The CoNs are funding private religious schools, charter schools, and home schooling at the detriment of public. We absolutely should not be paying for this.
As a secondary argument against vouchers, the dollar amount proponents like to point at that districts get per student are based on either an average or median cost across the district. That isn’t real money that each student qualifies for. Vouchers harm students who need funding most.
Down side to many pvt schools is the elitism. This school actually funds admission for many of their students who live in poor economic conditions. Downside; religion is a part of curriculum and it's located in an area where violent crime is on the rise.
It makes sense that at least some of the private schools would be good in some ways.
I tend to think we might want to consider eliminating private schools entirely, so that all efforts could be focused on making the public ones the best possible for all students.
The school does what it can on private funding. Plus side to this school is that there is zero tolerance of bad behavior. No daily fights, no class disrupters. Days of service to the community are a requirement. The school has at least 4/year.
Arizona is going flat ass broke with their voucher program, which has ballooned to over $400 million next year. And people are defrauding the program to pay for legos, ski lift tickets, grand pianos, etc.
Another US-UK difference. Over here public schools are the ones you pay to attend and are full of toffs and wanabes. State schools are the ones funded out of taxation. Leads to endless confusion.
There is however a difference between just about every other US-UK difference, and this one.
On almost every other one the UK objectively (not even subjectively) has it right. This is a rare example of having to grudgingly give the point to the US.
My daughter worked at a very exclusive private school last year. She had to sit in for conferences when they told parents that the school wasn’t a fit for their child. They only wanted high IQ kiddos and they had figured out by kinder which kids had to go. She quit and went back to public school.
My state has those stupid voucher programs and my daughter has Autism. It has been a battle for our school district to get her diagnosis (they are still downplaying the autism and up playing mild intellectual delay). My husband wants to enroll her in a school for autistic kids. ugh...
I say ugh because they are considered private...but keep in mind the school they want to send kids in the district who are disruptive is horrible and I'm scared enough for my daughter with the world as it is.
Hi Kelly! I work in a public school in NY for BOCES and we have fabulous programs for children with autism! We have standalone classrooms of 6,8 or 12, all ages until 21 for our component districts in the county. Great speech, OT and PT!
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Playing devil's advocate here -- It seems that they are looking for kids that have an exceptional aptitude for the academia.
I used to see these kinds of kids all the time - Even my own niece was quite exceptional - even had trouble getting into the school she wanted 😭
The other one did really well at the other school she went to.
Both schools were great - but they were two different kinds of students
The older niece went on to Berkley and graduated 2 years ago for her masters - with honors
The other niece went to Berkley ALSO - and graduated last June - for her bachelors
Some schools want kids that are good at one thing in particular - like a kid that's really great in physics or math
Another school probably prefers kids that are extremely capable in the arts, performance or literature
That's what I'm talking about
It was through my hard work and dedication that I realized how much I loved school - and got into NYU
I think it's why I love Hermione Grainger's character so much
As a secondary argument against vouchers, the dollar amount proponents like to point at that districts get per student are based on either an average or median cost across the district. That isn’t real money that each student qualifies for. Vouchers harm students who need funding most.
I tend to think we might want to consider eliminating private schools entirely, so that all efforts could be focused on making the public ones the best possible for all students.
But that's unfeasible for various.
Here were the supporters:
https://www.sosaznetwork.org/2024/universal-voucher-cost-equals-half-of-azs-budget-deficit/#:~:text=GCI%20estimated%20that%20the%20net,and%20%24429%20million%20next%20year.
How is this legal?
And an answer: Because our election system is a binary choice, and massive campaign spending from those who can is allowed.
Sometimes civility is a handicap
And if anyone wants bibles in schools, they need to go to Sunday School - or any religious school or college.
The separation of church and state is a concept that's enshrined in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution
On almost every other one the UK objectively (not even subjectively) has it right. This is a rare example of having to grudgingly give the point to the US.
Getting rid of the Department of Education?
Not so much.