Sun-Sentinel is aganist parents having choices
March 31, 2008 by libertyisforme
On Sunday’s paper, the Sun-Sentinel discussed one of the many recommendations of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission — a constitutional amendment that would establish a publicly funded school voucher program by removing the Blaine amendment from the state constitution.
The editorial board says:
This week, the commission took a step toward putting this debacle of an idea on the November ballot as a constitutional amendment. If that’s the panel’s idea of tax and budget reform, then the state of Florida is in far deeper trouble than anyone ever imagined.
Excuse me, this would place Florida in far deeper trouble?
I don’t think so. The system now is spending 19 million dollars to educate 2.6 million students, 34.9 percent who are in failing schools.
And you know what happens every year, costs go up and their aren’t any significant changes in students academic achievement.
How is this fair to parents? Taxpayers?
It’s not. Parents are forced to send their kids to shitty schools. And taxpayers pay for the shitty schools without any say.
A statewide voucher program, would be a great thing because it would allow the system to function like the marketplace.
Yes the marketplace, where we choose to buy the Sun-Sentinel over the Miami Herald or vice versa.
I find it odd that editorial board members, who belong to a struggling industry — much like our government schools — but who are being innovative to keep the business alive, don’t demand the same from our schools.
