To your last point - a 100% tax revolt - that’s how we can get the laws ultimately changed to have the money follow the child. If enough children are pulled out of govt. schools, then the schools don’t get their money from the the govt. and then there will be some action.
What happened in Utah? I know they wanted out of NCLB and were willing to give up any Federal money to do it.
Utah.
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2) Tax revolt:
Please read my post# 121.
We could have a completely **private** system of school funding in this nation. We could get government **completely** OUT of the education business. We really could SHUT DOWN every government school in this nation!
Conservatives are that wealthy. We could do this if we wanted. All it would take is for the idea to catch on and for a leader to make it happen.
Again: Please read my post #121.
If you agree, copy and paste it, and send to it to everyone you know. I really do believe my tag line: Good ideas win! Why? Because people ( conservatives, in this case) are not stupid! )
2) Utah:
This state’s legislature in winter of 2007 passed a universal voucher bill available to all the children in the state. It is nearly **impossible** to get enough signatures for a referendum in Utah, but the teachers’ unions pulled the impossible off.
( By the way, these are the **same** teachers who claim to be completely politically powerless when it comes to effective reading, math, and history curriculum and discipline measures, etc. It’s always the parents’ fault or the school board’s fault, etc.)
In November, the teachers and all their friends and millions of dollars, ( with the help of suburbanite and rural Mormons in predominantly Mormon counties, who already have “religious” schools in the form of government schools) defeated the vouchers by over 60%.
It is always a bad idea to go head to head with the teachers unions. It is much better to nibble around the edges.
The big joke is that we don’t NEED any federal money. The federal government needs OUR money. All of the money in Washington comes from the individual states. What a bunch of malarkey that we need federal money.
This might be a good way for people to realize what a sham big Washington really is. What if Utah or some other state pulls out of the federal school system and realizes it has plenty of money to educate their kids with their own money.