A voucher system that follows the student will let the parents and the students decide which school and which type of school they want to go to. Most will realize that public education is the best bang for the buck and will stick with that. Those that want a religious based school will choose one of those. Those that are interested in having mind numbed cultists will... well you can read my tag line.
BTW the reason that i don't communicate with you off-list/ off thread is the single time I did you reprinted it against forum rules on thread.
BTRW thank you for demonstrating that you really don't read what is posted, and allowing me to present the logical rational approach.
To All Freepers,
Verga is a professional teacher with the godless government schools. The above is verga’s tag line.
I am certain, though, as a professional, that this hateful bias against those with religious beliefs and homeschoolers would **never** ( no, never!) bleed into the godless classroom setting. A professional government teacher would never do that. ( no, sarc tag.)
In states that have vouchers, tax credits, and charters working within the godless government schools, or running for the school board, did not achieve this goal. It was by working politically on the state level and in the courts that this happened. It is for this reason, that I am highly active in my local Tea Party. I hope you are as well.
Why do you think that the teachers unions fight vouchers, tax credits, and charters and, when passed, try valiantly to keep them very limited? Answer: Because once these limited programs are offered to parents, HUGE waiting lists form, and there is the TV drama of the long lines snaking around the block ( just to get on the waiting lists) and the tears, hugs, smiles, and sad faces on lottery day. Another reason is that those with children in these private alternatives, those who have lost the lottery, and those hoping for a private alternative are forming **powerful** lobbying groups.
I support vouchers, tax credits, and charters for two reasons but I am cautious about them for one.
Reasons I am for vouchers, tax credits, and charters:
1) They can help build the private sector that was either destroyed by the government cartel of price-fixed schools or never really had an opportunity to develop ( as in my county).
2) Once vouchers, tax credits, and charters are fully available, I predict that the government owned and run schools will utterly collapse.
Reasons for being against vouchers, tax credits, and charters:
Vouchers, tax credits, and charters are still socialized-entitlement schooling. When socialist money is involved government strings are attached. There is great danger that the privately owned and run voucher, tax credit, and charter schools will simply bow to government pressure and they will become de facto government schools.
Hopefully, government schooling will continue to be so horrific that it will just collapse on its own without having widespread vouchers, tax credits, and charters. In nearly every state of Union, if believing Christians, Jews, and conservatives removed their children, and elected representatives that would refuse to fund the government schools, the entire government system of godless, socialist, and First Amendment trashing schools could be shut down overnight.
There is evidence that government schools are bleeding students. Enrollment in my areas is declining and it is not related to declining numbers of children in the population.
Homeschooling is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized. If the words, public school or government school, are not capitalized, then homeschooling shouldn't be, either.
Also...It is usual to combine the words, home and school, when referring to homeschooling. One of the major reasons it is done this way is that it makes Internets searches easier. If one uses the words, “home and school”, one will get many hits that have absolutely nothing to do with those who educate their children in the home. The other is that the word, homeschooling, is now a commonly accepted English word ( verb, common noun, and adjective) that English speakers know to mean educating a child in the home rather than in an institution.