Reply #259: Absolutely wrong. [View All]

[Kitka]

I don’t have a problem paying for my kid’s private school education, my parents pay for it. I don’t believe school vouchers are a good think because it would help ME and “my angels”. I believe it’s a good thing because I’m on the school board and I know how hard it is for our school to stay afloat. I know how much good this school has done for many of the children in our low income area where we are. I know that in order to stay the cheapest private school in the county, we have to come up with alternative funding and are still counting on the elders of the church to keep us afloat. When they’re gone, so are we, unless another source of revenue comes along. Hence, voucher support.

My daughter is a very intelligent child, she isn’t being served perfectly at either the public or private school (and I’ve had her in both). If the school folds, she’d be okay at the public school since I'm supplementing her anyway. But many kids need the structure and sense of community that our school provides. I think mostly of them when working to save our school.

I prefer my child to be there because they are a progressive Catholic church who educate the children on social justice movements and nonviolence. This is compared to the public school system there, where I was taught that Reagan was God and the native Americans were treated well. It’s not just fundies that want public funding of private schools, it’s many progressives who prefer their children to be raised being taught progressive ideals.

Taking away funds from public schools will not have the massive effect many propose. Yes, there will be less funds. But there will also be less children to support.

Don’t generalize, you sound very closedminded when you’re unwilling to discuss something without assuming that voucher advocates don’t have other people’s children in mind.