Posted on 10/19/2021 4:23:55 AM PDT by cotton1706
They will be hurt.
If parents formally withdraw their kids, districts lose state aid.
Sure, property taxes can and will be raised to cover the shortfall, but that won’t be enough for long, and teachers will have to go.
If honest audits of districts start taking place, that spiral will speed up.
And that doesn’t take into account a decline in taxpayers who flee imploding districts and a resulting loss in property values.
Conservative leaders nationwide are increasingly advocating an exit from government schools altogether. Just this weekend, conservative heavyweight Candace Owens urged parents to remove their children from government schools on Fox News.“Pull your children out of public schools,” Owens told the cable network on Sunday. “The time is now, remove your children from these indoctrination camps, they’re not learning to be smart, they’re not focused on hard academics, they are being brainwashed and and systematically controlled and what they want to produce, by the way, are failures.”
A friend of mine from college homeschooled her five (yes, five) children. They all grew up just fine and none are SJWs.
Let the monies be attached to the student. Schools Compete for that student
Well, would you look at this …
I just tell Leftists that I am pro choice. We have choice for college. A Pell grant can go to a private or a public university. What’s so scary about giving people the same kind of choice when it comes to primary education.
That puts them in the tough position of having to argue for bureaucrats over poor and working class parents - the upper middle class and the rich already send their kids to private schools. You know who wants school choice? Lots of Black People. It was a major vote getter for Ron DeSantis.
Where I live that is certainly true. One of the conservative schools, had a math teacher (the man had an engineering degree) who had left one the elite expensive schools in the area. He did it after the school had a “coming out” assembly for middle schoolers complete with homosexuals propagandizing the kids. That was 15 years ago.
Unfortunately, the kind of people who ran that school have infiltrated my local school board. The rich leftists are abandoning the city like the cockroaches they are.
Nobody will ever credit this, but the first real body blow to the teachers unions was done by George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas. He got a law passed, which on first look especially rewarded the teachers unions and teachers in general. Very cash flow positive.
However, he had a rider put in that this law superseded all previous education bills in Texas. The union and teachers didn’t care, they were getting what they wanted so it passed, over Republican objections.
The previous laws had put strong restrictions on homeschooling and private school funding. With those restrictions gone, both skyrocketed, especially among the Hispanic Catholic groups.
The power of the teachers union dropped, because public schooling dropped, and teachers got laid off, dropping funds to the unions, closing some public schools, etc. They have never recovered in Texas, and homeschooling and private schools do very well in Texas, very well indeed.
I like it.
We home-schooled our daughter for all 13 years of her schooling (neither of us has a degree in education, nor are we "rich").
The one that gets me is the plea for all the teachers buying materials for their class rooms. If I were a teacher, I would not do so. I would tell the parents to own up to the matter and get school supplies for their children.
My Town had a Special election for an additional School Tax Levy - only 11% of the residents bothered to vote - the School Tax won with 75%
That is great.
My wife, a registered nurse and psychologist, decided after the birth of the 3 of 5 children, to stay home and homeschool.
Those children have never forgiven me. They were taught the 3 Rs, massive reading and writing skills, and beautiful cursive. they have always believed they would have had it much easier in public school. Their mom also has a minor in music, so they ALL had to play one instrument along with piano, she being the teacher. Blood, sweat and tears all the way.
Federal and most state funding is based on the number of students. Idiot progressive school boards will keep spending anyway, burdening the locals with bonds.
Those “conservatives” who keep their kids in public schools are nearly all just looking for free day-care at this point. It’s getting close to the point where the public schools are an overtly abusive environment. IF your kids are still in them, good luck raising a normal, healthy child. The numbers in the public schools who have green hair and think they’re “trans” is staggering.
But isn’t this the problem? Conservatives already retreat, and we’re running out of positions to fall back on.
Government schools must die for America to live.
Health and life insurance became a standard parts of employee compensation packages as an unintended consequence.
Citizens ( I'm not a commie “worker” thank-you very much) need to provide tax exempt (by whatever means necessary) tuition assistance to private schools in their community.
Pass the cost on to the feds in less profitability hence taxes and to the children in the form of a promising future.
Do it for the children. It's worth every penny and will pay in the future in dividends that you cannot fathom.
Our family abandon the public school system a long time ago and never looked back. Today my child is being inducted into the National Honors Society.
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