After SPIN! Video: Should public money go to private schools?
Published May 25, 2016
After SPIN! "Question to Howard Lee –The legislature seems to favor expanding opportunity scholarships, vouches for low income students to attend private schools. Have we had enough experience with them to determine how well they are working? What do you see as the pro and con on these scholarships?"
May 25, 2016 at 10:20 am
Norm Kelly says:
If there's accountability, which this opponent of private schools says, then why the opposition to private schools? Why is it that private schools create so much angst in the hearts of libs? What is it about competition to government monopoly schools that libs dislike so much?
Could it be private schools can show the waste of money in the education establishment?
Could it be private schools can show that every child can be educated, really educated, outside of the education establishment?
What is it that private schools do that causes so much grief for libs?
And, please, don't go to the childish rant about religious education. Just because a religious school teaches truth instead of your indoctrination doesn't mean the religious school should be banned. Just because a religious school mixes religion along with a real education, where math is learned, reading is learned, and writing properly is learned, doesn't mean the religion part of it must be banned. Remember, when you whine about religious teachings in a religious school, the reason you whine is because YOUR religion of big government, central planning, left-wing zealotry isn't being taught. Other than a real education, what is it about private schools, religious or not, that causes you so much pain? Why do you want to prevent my kids from learning what they need to? Do you object to your kids being indoctrinated? If not, then leave me alone. I'm willing to leave you alone, leaving your kids in indoctrination centers, so what say we leave each other alone!
(btw: for anyone who thinks i'm ranting against teachers, go back and reread. perhaps the second reading will show that i've not mentioned teachers once. it's the establishment that is the issue, not the teacher. read proper english, please!)
May 26, 2016 at 10:23 am
Richard L Bunce says:
Mr. Lee has no problem when his wealthy friends send their children to these alternative school systems. Opposing providing the resources for less wealthy parents to do the same is at least class bias... and perhaps "race" bias.
In fact the per student funding at a traditional government school increases when a student at the school switches to an alternative school using an Education Voucher which is only about half the average NC traditional government school per student funding level... and I suspect all the dollars flowing into the traditional government schools are not counted in that calculation of average per student funding... cause that is just what government does.
