Palin does not support vouchers

She also supported the bridge to nowhere when she ran for governor... They better hope she stays with that position.

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Now when it was Obama there were tons of post about flip flopping. But when she changes up it's a, "non issue".

Are you for or against vouchers...


This is your thread so I hope you don't mind but I really don't feel there is a one size fit all when it comes to education. Nothing that can include the minority child in the gang infested schools of the inner city and also be good for little Johnny out on the farm in po dunk or even little Sally born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

I have noticed neither candidate proposed a solution...

 

Do you think we should have a public school system with mandated curriculum? How do you finance this system if the private schools parents remove their money from the public system? I'm not saying this to bait you, this is the challenge I see with getting vouchers to work.


As a Christian father I do feel I should have the choice of my child being taught creationism but I also want my child to understand evolution and all other systems.

 

The private school parents are paying twice for their children's educations, once in tuition, the other in taxes to support the failed public educational system. You can blame the liberal Supreme Court again on this one. I remember when we used to have a great public education system, but that was before Prayer was taken out of Schools, etc.

 

I agree that private school parents are paying twice but the way it is today, they are the ones who can afford it. I'm not saying I agree with this but the question still remains how do vouchers and public schools co exist?

As for the public system itself, No child left behind sure didn't help. I can't believe the time they spend studying for that one test...

 

In theory nothing... However, in practical application, it penalizes and takes funds from schools who kids don't show up, parents don't make study or really don't care to learn. Inner city schools have names on the role of children they've never seen.

Then it forces the school to spend extra time with the above kids while the kids who want to learn are ignored or slowed.

In my daughters school you have to add the element whose parents don't speak English and the kids who speak very poor if any English. Because she is not in a bilingual school, the English speaking kids learning is slowed so the teachers can spend extra time getting the instruction across.

Schools here now have to have X amount of Spanish speaking staff. The problem is the Spanish speaking kids are in every class and every activity. This makes the Spanish speaking staff have to leave their classes to communicate something etc...

All of this adds to the pressure of the test since each of their names are on the role.

 

True... :thumbs:

 

This is the best thing I have heard about her so far, that she is against vouchers. Hmm, that is a traditional Baptist position.

 

Don't blame the teachers. They have to follow the "rules" mandated by legislators and administrators.

As you are for vouchers ... are you for public support of Islamic schools, or Hindu schools, or Confucian schools? All these religions are present in the US and if vouchers are allowed for Christians they will have to be allowed for all.

Also, with government money comes government control. Do you want that for Christians schools?

 

If evolution isn't taught as a theory the teacher should be reprimended. That goes for all other scientific theories as well including the theory of gravity.

 

Bingo. This is why I, as a conservative, have serious reservations about vouchers.

 

I went to public school my kids went to public school. No problems any different then any other christians, or christian teens. The pastors son went to a christian school for 3 yrs after they moved here, he was very shy and wanted a private school, thinking it would be different then public school. Yeah, right, what he found was drugs and sex in the teenagers there too, nothing different then public school students.