RALEIGH (AP) — Lawmakers in the North Carolina Legislature soon will consider a bill that would designate state money to help pay private school tuition for some children.
House speaker Thom Tillis confirmed Monday that Republican lawmakers are drafting legislation that would provide state-paid private school scholarships intended for what he described as low-income or at-risk children. The Mecklenburg County Republican declined to say how much funding would be proposed for the initiative or where the money might come from in what is expected to be a tight 2014 budget.
Tillis spoke to kick off what he described as an “Education Week” that will include a listening tour and meetings with local school superintendents and teachers, groups that have historically resisted attempts to shift tax money from public education to private institutions.
In addition, the very nature of the free market system as it would apply here should serve to elevate the standards of the public sytem as a means of its own survival. Would that not benefit us all as well?
My opinions assume that the private schools will in NO WAY, SHAPE, or FORM, alter or lower their standards or put up with negative behavior whether it comes from the wealthiest student or the poorest.
Whenever people want to focus on blame and punishment more than the solving of a real problem, some self examination might be in order.
Not preaching but paraphrasing Jesus' words that whatever is done to the least of these is done to me comes to mind. Just a thought.
I would rather have my children around like minded kids whose parent's haven't settled for the minimum life has to offer. I don't want my kid playing with poor, un-ruly, un-raised kids by single moms on welfare... "who think the world owes them something"...
Compare kids from single parent government housing area's to kids raised by 2 parents from affluent neighborhoods....
ps. And I know rich kids who are very well mannered and nice, "so your point is worthless"... See how it works?
Delete your account, you never make any sense.
I also support alternative schools for bad kids. There are plenty of kids that are ineducable and only rob other kids of an education. They need to be sent to an alternative school, given one last chance, and then they need to be gone. Make them the parents' problem.
This is a bad idea. If you can't afford to pay for your children to attend, we don't want our child around your child. There's a reason you chose to be poor and a reason we didn't...