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| This is a scene re-created in the Independence Kansas Museum. A town with a population of 17,000 or so has a museum ten times the size of anything Laredo wishes to call a museum. A story for another day. |
Now that school vouchers have made their way to the debate squads in Austin, I would like to add a couple of notes of my own to the debate, and who should be allowed to debate.
1. I am somewhat for vouchers, but not taking the total cost of educating a student and giving it to vouchers. I still believe in public education and that it can be the best method of teaching any student. I am for parents having a choice in putting their kids in a private school and giving them some of "their" tax dollars to supplement the cost of doing so. Every parent should have the ability to assure their kids get the K-12 education required to compete both in college and the real working world. No one should have to suffer poor schools.
2. Any legislator who sends his or her children to private school should be voided from voting against vouchers. Either they vote for vouchers, or they not vote at all. Hypocrisy should not be allowed. Just because they can afford to send their kids to private schools does not mean they should condemn others children to poor performing schools.
In fact, these legislators who live in districts with poor performing schools should not be allowed to send their kids to private school. They should suffer and do what they can to make their districts accountable.
PS, just bringing "more resources" (lege speak for money) to a district would not give the legislator permission to send his/her kids to a private school. Money does not equate to a good education in the K-12 systems.
I am really curious to see what Laredoan's think of their legislators who send "their" kids to private school, yet will not allow poor kids the same opportunity. What say you?
If you want to transfer your son/daughter to a private school, you should probably get a partial tax break. If the parents make a good living but are not filthy rich, it would help some. But if the parents fall near the poverty line, then a partial refund probably woulnd't do. They would still be responsible for the rest of the tuition.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I would want public ed. money going to religious schools.
Now, if your child is failing, and you decide to make the transfer to a private school, what makes you think that he/she won't fail there too?
In Laredo, I think people enroll their children in private religious schools more out of a concern for safety, I think.