Posted on 08/26/2014 6:36:18 AM PDT by John Semmens
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood declared the state’s the Opportunity Scholarship program unconstitutional. The program provided funds for poor children to attend the same private schools attended by their financially better off peers.
“Allowing these children to exit the failing public school system undermines the incentive and capability for improving the public schools,” Hobgood ruled. “It would put the good of the few ahead of the collective well-being of the whole. By preventing the few from escaping we maintain the pressure for reform of the system.”
Hobgood rejected the argument that allowing students to exit substandard schools would stimulate competition and lead to better public school performance. “Public schools are too inflexible to compete,” Hobgood said. “The only chance for them is for public outrage over poor performance to induce a major overhaul of both methods and personnel. Every parent whose child is trapped in the public school is another potential voice of outrage. Parents who are now seeking scholarships to save their own children must be turned into advocates for all of society’s children. They won’t do this unless they see their own children suffering.”
The fact that the vast majority of recipients of the Opportunity Scholarships are Black didn’t impress Hobgood. “There is an even larger contingent of Black victims left behind in awful public schools,” he observed. “Unless every child can be saved it is better that none be saved. That is the only equality we can absolutely guarantee.”
In related news, Dyer County High School senior Kendra Turner was suspend for saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed. “Blessing has religious connotations,” explained a school spokesman. “This is a public school. We have zero tolerance for that.”
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“Allowing these children to exit the failing public school system undermines the incentive and capability for improving the public schools,” Hobgood ruled. “It would put the good of the few ahead of the collective well-being of the whole. By preventing the few from escaping we maintain the pressure for reform of the system.”
No it allows the unions to stay in power and continue to teach disinformation to our yutes.
There was a Slate article, I believe, that had the exact same premise a few months ago. Private schools should be banned because they were used by the most dedicated and motivated parents. If those parents didn’t have an outlet, they’d improve the public schools in a few years, per this person’s reasoning.
It’s getting so difficult to tell the news from the satire these days.
quote “Unless every child can be saved it is better that none be saved. That is the only equality we can absolutely guarantee”
WOW
Does that pretty much sums up all liberal policies, don’t it?
They are not even trying to hide their beliefs anymore, shocking.
String up the judge.
Again we can’t tell if it is satire or policy.
Again we can’t tell if it is satire or policy.
Judge Robert Hobgood ... what a perfectly Dickensian name.
Teachers Unions assail that public resources going to private schools is a violation of the public trust, when for many decades prior we've realized that the least efficient dollar spent is one that goes through the government bureaucracies. Dollars routed through more efficient, private enterprise will yield more per dollar spent.
Students that go to private schools don't somehow fall outside the benevolence set aside by legislatures for their education, as if legislatures' prime directive were to support only teachers' unions. Inherently, legislators' constituents include those that choose to send their students to both public and private schools.
Yet, the Democrat side of government's aisle would use every tax (and borrowed) dollar to corruptly grease its constituents' palms to help buy more votes for itself. Lois Lerner's actions are emblematic of the way the right wing is treated by Leftists in government.
HF
Again we can’t tell if it is satire or policy.
Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
Abolish government schools.
But-but-but, if you abolish government schools, how will the unions and PC police brain wash the kids?
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