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Second on our school choice/ vouchers program.
Today, we related what Alex Newman exposed: that the United Nations promotes the use of taxpayer money in order to control education. Home schooling is out from under government control — at least in Texas. To counteract that, the plan, according to Newman, Iserbyt and others, is to lure people into accepting government money. Self-interest, right?
But then under the reasonable claim of need for accountability, the government will want to surveil and then control home education.
People say “we should get our money back.” Yes, it would be great if the whole pie were divided by number of children and each respective set of parents could use that money as they saw fit. No one is contemplating that. Instead, out of a big budget, of say $10K per child, they will “give back” something like $1K (helpful maybe but not enough for public school). Who keeps the $9K?
You may get the exact words of Newman and others by using the signup form to the right. Get the whole book Shekels to Shackles. Next, another state’s experience with ESA savings accounts.
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School choice is once again being pushed by a governor. Having failed numerous times in the states I follow, it is once again being pushed thru the lege == while everyone is watching national news. Deciet is rampant.
Most Christians and most conservatives think “school choice” or “vouchers” is a good thing because “it will give us our money back” and “allow poor children to go to private school.” This is false. If we could take the budget, divide by the number of students, and send it to each one, that would probably be wonderful. That sort of plan is NOT under consideration.
Most vouchers are a small part (like 1-%) is given to those who apply, after a slice is taken for bureacracy of course. Thus, it may defray costs for some middle class people; it will not be enough to provide for tuition for the poor. hen the 90% of what the school might spend on that student if they were in government school, is retained. However, the biggest characteristic is that where Cesear’s money goes, so do the “strings.” Public money grants come with accountability, control.
If one doubts this, check out what happened last time: a very small amount of poor students got some temporary help, while the government schools got a larger budget in the deal, and Democrats screamed that government schools were in danger of being closed, — and that accountability must be included.
This time around, Gov. Abbott is talking about educational savings account. This might be somewhat better, except that it required “accredited schools.” The largest accrediting body of Christian schools is now controlled by Marxist philosopy and requires teaching of LBTQ. See my review of Mindshift on Youtube. At any rate, we will deal with the ESAs and how the Christians in Arizona were very disappointed by it — in an upcoming episode.