Public schools “lose” Federal funding with each “missing” student, so they don’t want to “give” anything to non-public school “scabs.”
As an example of the importance of having kids’ butts in the classroom chair, here’s a 2011 story out of San Diego:
“.....The attendance-based funding formula puts a bounty on the heads of students, forcing schools to meticulously track their absences – placing dollar amounts next to their names. Number 114 is one of 358 students on a list of the chronically absent at Lincoln High. A student is considered chronically absent if he or she misses 10 percent or more of the 180-day school year.
At Ramona Unified, 473 chronically absent students cost the district $355,566.77 last year. Twenty-seven of them missed at least a quarter of the school year. Two were absent more than 100 days....”
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/27/chronically-absent-students-cost-county-schools-mi/
I understand their concern, they don’t want a kid whose parents care so much abut their education to home or private school messing with the federal money they get for bodies in the classroom. Money that comes from taxpaying parents like the ones who homeschool.
Yea I get it .>sarc
However it seems no one, from schools to parent who home and private school their kids
so what is the motive of the Dem who added this?