Posted on 03/03/2009 2:55:03 PM PST by Sopater
On January 22, a committee of the Rapid City School Board implied that homeschoolers were to blame for the school system losing thousands of dollars in funding. Just six days later, the Clear Lake Courier blamed homeschoolers for the loss of $41,000 in school funding.
When homeschoolers are wrongly accused of creating financial problems for public school systems, it’s time to respond. HSLDA attorney Scott A. Woodruff sent the following letter to the editor to the Clear Lake Courier:
Dear Editor:By leaving the blame for the school system losing $41,981 at the door of area homeschoolers, your recent article, “Students and aid lost from open enrollment,” encourages your readership to think that homeschoolers are the problem.
But it’s perfectly logical to reduce a school’s funding when it serves fewer students. If there are fewer students, the school needs less money.
The question that then remains is: “Since the opportunity to serve someone is a privilege, not an entitlement, what does the school plan to change to reduce the erosion of confidence among area families?” That’s the $41,000 question that went unasked and therefore unanswered in your article.
Next time the Clear Lake Courier talks about schools “losing” money because of homeschoolers, please mention how much homeschoolers save the taxpayer by educating their children at their own expense—not the taxpayers’. Homeschoolers are some of the best friends the taxpayer has.
Sincerely, Scott A. Woodruff, Esq.
Annoy Washington and the TEACHER’s UNIONS -— HOMESCHOOL. They might turn out CONSERVATIVE!!
he'd OPEN muslim schools Thou!!!
Yeah, blame homschoolers not their own socialist unionist secular public school policies (and financial wastefulness..).
They want to force homeschoolers to go to their schools, which give their agenda. These people are nothing but FASCIST BIG GOV/STATIST NAZIS!
I bet the homeschoolers are out of more money on a percentage basis because they still pay taxes with no benefit.
They do not read the Marxist books...they are bad kiddies!
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