We send our son to a local private school and agree with Wednesday's State Journal editorial, «Don't splurge on vouchers,» that people in middle to higher income brackets who send their children to private schools don't need vouchers.
Not exact matches
So by your logic if Honey Boo Boo's mom decides
to bring «go - go» juice (red bull mixed with Mountain Dew) and pageant crack (pixie sticks)
to class
to celebrate and uses her own money, the only thing other parents can
do is hope their
children are trained like pit bulls
to «just say no,» homeschool, or
send them
to a
private school.
I'm on the verge of
sending my
child to private schools or homeschooling as I, THE PARENT has the choice in what my
child does and
does not eat.
Unless you haven't noticed, parents who choose
to send their
children to private schools are already paying taxes for state
school places for their
children, taxes they don't get back for places they don't use.
And then there is his substantial baggage:
sending children to private schools, his shares (recently relinquished) in a family company that doesn't pay a living wage or recognise trade unions, and previously owning shares in a tax - haven firm.
The other public
schools are of such poor quality that any parents who can afford
to do so
send their
children to expensive
private schools.
We also don't know the public -
private school break out of the respondents, or how many were
sending their
children to charter
schools.
It is still possible that adults who attended religious
schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who
send children to non-religious
private schools do not appear
to yield lower anti-Semitism.
Thus, the program
does little or nothing for parents who wish
to send their
child to a
private school but are of limited means.
Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country...
sent their own
children to abundantly financed
private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue
to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points
to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).
We
send our
children to school for the
private purpose of preparing for personal advancement — for college, career, and in hope that they might
do a little better in life than we have.
The Nevada ESA program means families who could never before afford
to send their
child to private school now have the ability
to do so.
As someone who is working all the hours
to send my
children to private school and making sacrifices such as no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they
did not get into the most local «good» state
school I would most certainly move my
children back into the state system.
Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more
school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier
to access in a district where many families who could afford
to leave
did so, or who
sent their
children to private schools or charter
schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.
A Michigan Court of Appeals held that a statute permitting local
school districts
to furnish transportation without charge for students of state - approved
private schools did not violate Michigan's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 4) because the statute's intended and actual effect was
to assist parents in complying with state compulsory education laws while recognizing their right
to send their
children to religious
schools.
Atkinson was careful
to point out that she doesn't have a problem with parents
sending their kids
to private schools or homeschooling their
children.
Now we have a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California asking, «
Do you favor or oppose providing parents with tax - funded vouchers
to send their
children any public,
private or parochial
school they choose?»
Critics also conveniently forget about all the money public
schools receive for services they
do not provide when parents, who pay property taxes for public education,
send their
children to private schools.
Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public
schools to send children to private, often religious,
schools that don't have
to meet state standards.
Many parents choose
to send their
children to private schools or choose
to homeschool their
children to assure that they are
doing everything they can
to provide a quality education for their
child.
As noted, there is no question that parents have the right
to send their
children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other
private schools, and we shouldn't be forced
to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order
to pay for
schools like Achievement First,
schools that fail
to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public
school — public.
Why
do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan,
send their
children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's
children?»
Many don't honor their own principles by
sending their
children to private schools or living in leafy green suburbs.
In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of
sending their
children to high - performing district
schools or affording a
private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford
to pay tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access
to the handful that
do exist.
Even when they
do live in urban districts, many of them either use
school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements
to get first dibs on
schools that don't have Black or Latino
children in them, or just
send their kids
to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.
It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel
sends his
children to the
private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab
School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to r
School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens
to the
school system he is trying to r
school system he is trying
to reform.
Like: If public
school isn't good enough for Muldrow's
child, why
does she think it should be good enough for
children whose parents aren't capable of
sending them
to private schools?
This may sound like a reasonable option for parents interested in
sending their
children to private schools, but in reality the plan would
do little
to help many families with the cost.
Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates,
sent their own
children to abundantly financed
private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue
to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points
to the contrary.
We
did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually
do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of whom
send their
children to private schools where this nonsense
does not apply, appear
to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.
This
school is in my district and I must say that if their standardized math and reading scores don't improve then I will be forced
to send my
children to a
private school.
Having not attended a
private school myself — I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the Newcastle Grammar School scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need to send my children t
school myself — I had
to be dragged kicking and screaming
to do the Newcastle Grammar
School scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need to send my children t
School scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need
to send my
children to one.