Reply #22: How do you feel about the opportunity for school choice? [View All]

[exboyfil]

A voucher for your child to attend the school of your choice.

Any chance to get caring parents onto the school board (if that is the problem) and make changes to the system? What is the per pupil spend in CPS - is it a matter of insufficient resources?

Out of control school districts that do not meet the needs of the children (irrespective of whether the problem is administration or teachers) fuel the push for school choice.

The NEA wants to stack the deck completely against any sort of school choice. One of their resolutions state-

"Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used."

It is not sufficient that Homeschool parents receive no assistance, they even want to deny the right of a parent to educate their own child irrespective of how well the child does academically. That is ridiculous.

I personally don't like the idea of using vouchers for parochial education because of church state entanglement, but at least the variable cost of educating a student should be available in a voucher form to allow additional choice for parents.