School Vouchers, Parental Choice, Homeschooling Surge & Public Education Funding

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Rasputin_Vol

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The coronavirus has started a trend:

Increase in home schooling
Potential for people to move out of high concentration centers into more rural school districts
More online learning
Less travel to schools/less need for school infrastructure projects
Working parents that can't home school or adjust to new environment
School vouchers


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Rasputin_Vol said:
The coronavirus has started a trend:

Increase in home schooling
Potential for people to move out of high concentration centers into more rural school districts
More online learning
Less travel to schools/less need for school infrastructure projects
Working parents that can't home school or adjust to new environment
School vouchers


Discuss
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Parents should have more options to begin with. The public school disasters in most of our larger cities are a mess.
 
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Am a private school teacher and my school would welcome all students! We need to get our numbers up. Around 2010, my school had almost 300 kids from 2 years old to 8th grade. We now have around 130. Many of our parents have their child(ren) in our school to shelter them from the public schools.

My wife is a 5th grade teacher in an inner city school.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The coronavirus has started a trend:

Increase in home schooling
Potential for people to move out of high concentration centers into more rural school districts
More online learning
Less travel to schools/less need for school infrastructure projects
Working parents that can't home school or adjust to new environment
School vouchers


Discuss
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Property tax decrease???
 
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Someone explain how the school vouchers work to me. My oldest just moved from the county to the city to get her kids into a city school system that has a much better rating. As a result of this move their property taxes doubled as the city puts a lot of money into the school system. Is a voucher purely for a private school system or does it equally apply to students in a county school system that want to go to a city school system?
 
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volfanjustin said:
This will only be for a short period, at some point all kids will be back in school. Dems will never allow vouchers on a large scale
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Uhhh, I'm not so sure. Granted, I think you will see a gradual return, but I think the cat is out of the bag. Most people by now can see that you can do the school thing in several different ways that don't require physically attending everyday. I think remote learning will have a place from here on out.
 
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Pepe_Silvia said:
Property tax decrease???
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Why not? There would be/should be less need for more capital projects and with online learning, you cold possibly see costs savings. No more money being used to heat and cool these large buildings most days. Snow? Just spend the day learning online. Summer? Several possibilities there.
 
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headhunter15 said:
Am a private school teacher and my school would welcome all students! We need to get our numbers up. Around 2010, my school had almost 300 kids from 2 years old to 8th grade. We now have around 130. Many of our parents have their child(ren) in our school to shelter them from the public schools.

My wife is a 5th grade teacher in an inner city school.
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Who's Am?
 
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Vouchers ultimately increase the gap between the haves and the have nots.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
The have nots will typically remain have nots regardless of what is done. A huge reason there are haves is because of the parents
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There will always be haves and have nots. The issue is do we take steps to lessen the gap and the numbers on the extremes or do we take steps that will make those things greater.
 
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luthervol said:
Vouchers ultimately increase the gap between the haves and the have nots.
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Explain that one to me. If the vouchers are means tested and are going to 80% minorities as they are now, what's the harm?
 
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luthervol said:
There will always be haves and have nots. The issue is do we take steps to lessen the gap and the numbers on the extremes or do we take steps that will make those things greater.
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The problem with the programs trying to close the gap that you support is those programs try to narrow the gap by handicapping the achievers and not boosting the underachievers.
 
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luthervol said:
There will always be haves and have nots. The issue is do we take steps to lessen the gap and the numbers on the extremes or do we take steps that will make those things greater.
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Please explain how giving poor parents a choice in how to educate their kids spreads the gap between rich and poor? Or better, let's just assume you are correct, how does it affect poor people anymore than any other issue, such as single parent homes/out of wedlock births, drugs, crime, jobs being shipped overseas, etc?
 
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hog88 said:
The problem with the programs trying to close the gap that you support is those programs try to narrow the gap by handicapping the achievers and not boosting the underachievers.
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I disagree. My kids, my nieces and nephews, and their friends have all gone through public schools and done exceedingly well.
There are programs in place to challenge the highest of achievers.
 
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GAVol said:
Explain that one to me. If the vouchers are means tested and are going to 80% minorities as they are now, what's the harm?
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Its almost like they have a triggered response whenever the word "voucher" comes up. Most don't know why they oppose them, they just know that they have their standard set of talking points and objections. I've heard the same argument being made since the eraly1990s.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Please explain how giving poor parents a choice in how to educate their kids spreads the gap between rich and poor? Or better, let's just assume you are correct, how does it affect poor people anymore than any other issue, such as single parent homes/out of wedlock births, drugs, crime, jobs being shipped overseas, etc?
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A very short and simplified answer.......the kids with involved parents who value education all end up in the same schools and the kids who are already disadvantaged end up in the schools that those other kids left.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
What school district is this?
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I think he lives in/near Atlanta so you can take your pick amongst a wide variety of ethnic and economic groups. If i had to guess I'm thinking Luther is not on the lower end of the economic scale.
 
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