[Aquinasfan]

Some good news from the NCOGS discussion board:

TN Governor's Schools cancelled

Name: Steve Jones
Email: webmaster@gsfta.org

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All seven of the Governor's Schools in TN have been cancelled by our Governor due to the politics of fighting over the creation of a state income tax. Some of these schools have been in existence for 18 years. We are looking at a well over $500 million shortfall in state revenues this year. The arts and education were the first to go. The Governor's Schools were cut by the Governor in a $15 million cut to education. You can find out more by checking out the link on our homepage at http://www.gsfta.org. Please stay on top of your state politicians to keep this from happening to you.

[Red Jones]

thanks for this thread aquinasfan; To me, americans are very foolish not to overwhelmingly require a voucher system. Every single child should have his education funded by the state taxpayers and they should all be funded equally. But the school that educates that child should be selected by the parent, not the state. The state should also not intervene into the school's functioning to dictate the curriculum or anything of that sort. This is not only necessary to restore quality to our education system, but to ensure simple civil rights.

Some people say that if we did that then muslim wahabis will have schools or that wickans or devil worshipers would have schools. The american born mainstream education professionals will do a lot more damage to america in their schools than these other small groups will do in their schools.

With vouchers we will fund a large variety of schools. There will be some that will be absolutely excellent. Those schools will be increasing their enrollment wildly as time goes on. They will also influence the other schools to follow their lead. With vouchers we can completely revolutionize the school systems and realize great improvements over time. With the current system where we give taxpayer money to these types of people highlighted on this thread we are just destroying ourselves.

[Red Jones]

thanks for this thread aquinasfan; To me, americans are very foolish not to overwhelmingly require a voucher system. Every single child should have his education funded by the state taxpayers and they should all be funded equally. But the school that educates that child should be selected by the parent, not the state. The state should also not intervene into the school's functioning to dictate the curriculum or anything of that sort. This is not only necessary to restore quality to our education system, but to ensure simple civil rights.

Some people say that if we did that then muslim wahabis will have schools or that wickans or devil worshipers would have schools. The american born mainstream education professionals will do a lot more damage to america in their schools than these other small groups will do in their schools.

With vouchers we will fund a large variety of schools. There will be some that will be absolutely excellent. Those schools will be increasing their enrollment wildly as time goes on. They will also influence the other schools to follow their lead. With vouchers we can completely revolutionize the school systems and realize great improvements over time. With the current system where we give taxpayer money to these types of people highlighted on this thread we are just destroying ourselves.