Kansas "Education"

On a more serious note:

Kansas lawmakers unveil bill to incentivize private education with public funds

TOPEKA — A new education bill would funnel money into unregulated, unaccredited private schools, with lawmakers saying the legislation would protect parental authority.

The bill was promoted by lawmakers on the committee as a way for more Kansas students to access higher-quality education, but opponents say the bill is just the latest in a series of attempts to defund public schools.

House Bill 2218, which would become the “sunflower education equity act” if passed, was panned by education officials, including those from the Kansas National Association of Education, the Kansas Association of School Boards, public school officials and several Kansas State Board of Education members during a Monday hearing of the House K-12 Education Budget Committee.

The bill would allow parents to retrieve about $5,000 from a public school’s funding and apply the money to the costs of private school tuition or homeschooling.

Rep. Mari-Lynn Poskin, an Overland Park Democrat, was scolded for asking about the potential for triple-dipping. That’s because parents could participate in the new program as well as House Bill 2048, which would expand a tax credit that allows taxpayers to write off up to $500,000 worth of scholarships they provide for private schools.

Under HB 2218, parents could also receive money from other students by setting up their own unaccredited school.
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These are the same knuckleheads who bankrupted the state with their trickle down economics scheme about ten years ago.
 
No matter what an education voucher is called, the policy is the same. Vouchers are a scheme that divert public funds to private schools, defund public schools, and vendors, and then continue to undermine traditional public schools and charters, teachers, and students.

The Republicans have always had a pipe dream to create a school system to Teach Students from the age of Kindergarten all the way through High School their own Political ideology, as well as their Religious ideologies, promote WHITE NATIONALISM, and lastly educating them. A school system where the Republicans rule who gets to go to their private institutions and who they can eliminate from them.

Vouchers are a way for people without school-age children to try and get out of paying LOCAL SCHOOL TAXES and their fair share of Federal Income taxes.

Private Schools are very expensive, usually costing 20 to 50 thousand dollars a year per student.

So the concept is totally a system of segregation between Races of people, religions, and money class- RIGHT OFF THE BAT!
 
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This is all part of the Conservative Republican plan to destroy public education and replace it with state funded religious indoctrination.
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
No matter what an education voucher is called, the policy is the same. Vouchers are a scheme that divert public funds to private schools, defund public schools, and vendors, and then continue to undermine traditional public schools and charters, teachers, and students.

The Republicans have always had a pipe dream to create a school system to Teach Students from the age of Kindergarten all the way through High School their own Political ideology, as well as their Religious ideologies, promote WHITE NATIONALISM, and lastly educating them. A school system where the Republicans rule who gets to go to their private institutions and who they can eliminate from them.

Vouchers are a way for people without school-age children to try and get out of paying LOCAL SCHOOL TAXES and their fair share of Federal Income taxes.

Private Schools are very expensive, usually costing 20 to 50 thousand dollars a year per student.

So the concept is totally a system of segregation between Races of people, religions, and money class- RIGHT OFF THE BAT!
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Well said, well said.

Before I came to this forum, I was on a politics forum hosted by Amazon. There was a very conservative woman on that forum who was also a h.s. English teacher in the NOLA area. Louisiana had gone to that voucher shit years ago. She despised it. She said that people would open some little strip mall store front operation, collect the vouchers from the state, accept students, and pretend to "teach" for a few months. Then they would close up, walk away with the money, and the kids would end up back in their local under-funded public school. And in her class -- barely able to read, let alone keep up. It cost the public schools to keep them in remedial English, and frustrated the teachers horribly because they had to cater to the behind students over the on-grade students. But someone made out like bandits. It was not the students or the real teachers.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Well said, well said.

Before I came to this forum, I was on a politics forum hosted by Amazon. There was a very conservative woman on that forum who was also a h.s. English teacher in the NOLA area. Louisiana had gone to that voucher shit years ago. She despised it. She said that people would open some little strip mall store front operation, collect the vouchers from the state, accept students, and pretend to "teach" for a few months. Then they would close up, walk away with the money, and the kids would end up back in their local under-funded public school. And in her class -- barely able to read, let alone keep up. It cost the public schools to keep them in remedial English, and frustrated the teachers horribly because they had to cater to the behind students over the on-grade students. But someone made out like bandits. It was not the students or the real teachers.
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One of my closest Conservative friends went through a divorce and had two daughters in the 2nd and 3rd grade attending public schools.

He went through the state required arbitration and counseling before divorce court. My friend came up with this crazy idea to pay for his daughters to go to a private all girls school, instead of just paying his ex the standard Child Support. His ex-wife tried to talk him out of it, The Judge tried to talk him out of it, and I tried to talk him out of it.

That stupid decision ended up keeping him so broke over the next 10 years that he had to file bankruptcy twice. And both parents have regretted that decision, because of how the Girls grew up to regret not being normal like all other kids, and they have never let the parents get over that bad decision.

The girls grew up OK! One of the daughters grew up to be a life-long lesbian, and the other grew up and married into mixed racial marriages eventually having 4 children by 3 different daddies of another color!

Not that that is wrong, but it sure was not what the parents expected of their daughters.
 
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Perry Phimosis said:
This is all part of the Conservative Republican plan to destroy public education and replace it with state funded religious indoctrination.
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Precisely. They have some bizarro idea that things were "better in the old days" (i.e. when they were kids) because prayer and spankings were allowed in public schools.
 
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