Posted on 01/05/2006 8:32:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
TALLLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida Supreme Court has struck down the state's school voucher system that paid for some students to attend private schools.
"Give the public money refund back to the parents of the affected school children. Let them decide whether to use the money at another public school or a private school -- religious or otherwise. The money should NOT go direct to the school. "
I'm all for that. Rebate the amount a parent pays in property taxes that go to the public schools, to spend on any school they wish.
Go look at your property tax bill. It should be broken down there how much went for schools. Think you can find a school to take your kids for that amount? I'd guess not.
You want some of my tax dollars for your kid? Send 'em to the public school.
Good point. In Florida, they're Gods - not mere mortals like everyone else down there.
I thought this was hilarious, as I was taught to read by my grandmother, who never got passed the eighth grade.
It's not a question of what they like or dislike, it's who they are beholden to.
Florida Supreme Court Democrats to Blacks: Back to the plantation, NOW!
I'm curious as to how you think the Florida Supremes are playing word games. I think they have a good point; it would seem that the Florida Constitution requires the state to provide the children therein an education solely through the provision of a high-quality public school system, and to fix that system if it's failing. The Florida constitution would (based on those parts of it quoted in the decision) seem to forbid the state from using private schools as part of it's state-funded educational system.
Where is their logic incorrect?
You are talking about Floridians that forgot all about 2000 so this will also be a non-starter. When asked to vote up or down on these clowns since 2000, the people of FL continue to send them back to the FL Supreme Court.
Please see my post #145. Based on the quoted sections of the Florida Constitution, how do you think that the Florida Supreme Court misinterpreted it?
Same bunch that elected Algore president ain't it?
Same thing. Puts it in the same pot as Santa Claus and the Greek Titans and their children. That is, only allowed to be mentioned if the context makes clear it is a fairy tale.
What I think is funny is the 2nd grade teacher who thinks he/she should be paid as much as the teacher who teaches algebra or calculus....what a joke!
Look at the strings with the GI bill. I'm not saying it isn't a good program. You can go where you want but there are regulations once you get there.
I find their decision silly, and can't believe they are educated.
You don't have to read past the 1st page to realise how stupid they are -- they say that they must strike down the program because the constitution says public schools are the "sole means" of education.
But the constitution merely specifies the one REQUIRED school system, it does not say the state can't also support a second, separate system.
School vouchers is a wealth redistribution scheme from those of pay taxes to those who don't.
An Educational Tax Credit is the only way to reimburse taxpayers for their children private educational expenses. Return the money to taxpayers in the form of an ETC.
Rich people have choices. Poor people should send their kids to public schools.
Thus spake the FL Supreme Court.
If you take the ruling to it's basics, ALL private schools are illegal in Florida, and only Public schools are allowed........
no one's forced to go to public schools. anyone can go to private schools as long as the govt doesn't pay for it. If the smith's want to send their kid to private school all they have to do is pay for it or convince the schools to give him a scholarship. the private schools are perfectly free to offer scholarships or otherwise subsuduze the poorer students.
someone please explain the consistency between this and the position that the public shouldn't be forced to fund stem cell research because it violates their free exercise of religion.
if the public shouldn't be forced to support stem cell reseacrh through tax dollars, why should they be forced to support private/religious schools through tax dollars and why doesn't that violate their free exercise claim?
Since the public schools are now, by court rulings, secretarian of the Secularist-G-d-less Dogma established religion, then by the Florida Constitution NO schools can be publicly funded. Everybody go home! No more teacher, no more books ...
According to what they wrote, ALL private schools are illegal in Florida.......
Here in Illinois, if a public school fails repeatedly to meet state standards (as expressed in how the kids do on the tests), the School Boards have the right to clean house; dump the principal and the teachers and re-build the school from scratch. The unions have not been able to fight this. It's actually been done to a few schools. Test scores are going up. Slowly, but they're going up.
What if the school is private and not connected with a church, religious, or sect? Does it still apply?
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