Comments on: Testing For Thee, But Not For Me

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:06:16 +0000

In Florida, the voucher only covers the state’s funding, and not nearly the cost of educating a student, so poor people can’t afford to use them. The private schools want their total normal tuition.

Another way of destroying public education and enriching friends.

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:36:09 +0000

In my area of Florida your choice is Catholic school or a charter school, neither of which are subject to any state oversight. Many of these charter schools are funded by an “innovative” program: a business can “donate” to one of these schools and deduct that “donation” from their state tax bill. Understand if you are a business and owe the state $1,000 in taxes, you can “donate” $1,000 to one of these schools and owe the state nothing.

It’s another backdoor way of funding their madrassas, because those funds aren’t, technically, state money.

By: phinky

phinky — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:33:01 +0000

And my mother can’t figure out why I want my son to go to school in Virginia. Granted we have our wingnuts in our legislature, but they haven’t tried to do the school voucher thing yet. (I added this comment after I read the link.)

By: phinky

phinky — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:15:00 +0000

The sad part is, the parents from “failing” schools won’t use the vouchers. Case in point, my neighborhood’s elementary school is on the NCLB list as a failing school. As far as I know, I am the only one in our neighborhood who has taken advantage of the school choice provision for failing schools. My son doesn’t go to the neighborhood school, he goes to a magnet school that is accredited by the Commonwealth of Virginia. (VA doesn’t give schools grades like FL does, it accredits them.)