[nmh]

"There's a good reason why he and his family are in the DC area instead of in Penn Hills---he was elected by the people of Pennsylvania to represent them in the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. Senate meets in Washington, DC. Senator Santorum owns a home in Penn Hills and pays property taxes on it. It is his tax money that is used to finance the cyberschool. If he chose not to have his family with him while working 7 days a week in DC, then he could have kept his kids in the Penn Hills public schools, but as it is they are enrolled in the Penn Hills cyberschool that allows them to take classes even when they aren't in Penn Hills. If a property owner in Penn Hills can't enroll his children in the local cyberschool, who can?"

He's abusing his position.

Could YOU do that from another state at taxpayer expense?


Of course not!

[SoothingDave]

Is Santorum a resident of PA?

SD

[Tribune7]

Could YOU do that from another state at taxpayer expense?

And why wouldn't you be able to? Cyberschools are cutting edge by that's the idea behind them.

[old and tired]

Hi nmh, I am a practicing Catholic who lives in Pennsylvania. I was heartbroken by Santorum's support of Specter in the primary. I felt it was a betrayal and it opened my eyes to the fact that Rick, is, afterall, just another politician.

However, you are being too tough on him. He's got a friend in the mortgage biz who gave him a mortgage. Big deal. He pays property taxes on a house in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania offers its residents cyber homeschooling as an option. I don't see any reason why he can't choose that option. I am sorry he stopped doing it. I don't think it's indicative of anything and it's certainly not an abuse of power. The man pays PA property taxes. He's got a right to have his children schooled in that manner.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Could YOU do that from another state at taxpayer expense?"

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If I was paying property taxes (you know, from where school districts in PA get their funding) in Penn Hills, you can bet your behind that I'd be able to enroll my kids in a cyberschool even if we were temporarily living in Mongolia. In fact, if I had been the one whose children were enrolled in the cybershool, they'd still be enrolled, since you wouldn't have liberal politicians carrying out a political witchhunt againt me like they do against Senator Santorum. Rick Santorum had every right to enroll his children in the school district into which he is paying property taxes, and the only reason why he pulled his kids out of the school is because the media was using the "issue" to attack him. I'm surprised a self-described conservative such as yourself would fall for this media scam hook, line and sinker.