[ April 26, 2024 ]
Democrat COVID panic porn has led to an unprecedented opportunity to take back institutions hijacked by the Democrats. They have destroyed our public education system. Now is our moment. Think of it as the law of unintended consequences.
Covid Crisis Opens a Schools Voucher Moment for Trump
Covid Crisis Opens a Schools Voucher Moment for Trump
Editorial of The New York Sun | September 19, 2020
Story continues below advertisementNever let a crisis go to waste, it’s said. The crisis that beckons at the moment is that which the Covid pandemic has precipitated in our public schools. It is laying bare how our K-12 education serves teachers unions more than their customers, meaning parents. Could this be a moment for President Trump to launch a national schools voucher for parents scrambling to get their children back to school — and corner Joe Biden?
On Thursday, three days before New York City’s public schools were due to return to in-classroom learning, parents learned that the opening for grades between eight and twelve will be delayed — until October. The New York Post, which has been all over the schools story, attributes the retreat to “mounting pressure from unions and elected officials.” It quotes some of them as being concerned about safety and other practicalities.
We’re not here to sort out these details. Rather, we’re focused on a broader issue. New York, moreover, is but one among what Education Week tallies as more than 13,000 public school systems in the country. EW has been able, so far, to chart how 900 of the systems are dealing with the covid crisis. What the crisis says to us is: empower parents to make the choices on where to educate their children.
And what better way for Mr. Trump to show his party stands with parents? The idea would be to expand a proven idea so that families across the country get a cash voucher for the education of their choosing: charter, private, religious, or home. Let the money follow the parents rather than to a set school. Milton Friedman began laying out the logic of vouchers more than 60 years ago. The idea shines brighter than ever.
This is already starting to percolate up from the states, in many of which various iterations of vouchers already exist. The covid crisis is showing the virtues of choice. Earlier this month, North Carolina passed, as part of its Corona Virus Relief Act, a measure to expand school choice options this year. The measure, the News & Observer reports, is “being praised as a victory for parents,” even if critics worry about public schools.
A national voucher program would not need to replace our burgeoning charter schools. Charter systems such as BASIS or the Great Heart Schools in Arizona, say, or Success Academies in New York have shown how eager parents are for choice, whether within or without the public school system. Governor DeSantis demonstrated this in Florida, where he backed school choice for lower earners in the Sunshine State. The idea here would be to take vouchers national.
We understand that the kind of legislation needed for that, and the budgetary work, isn’t going to happen between now and November 3. This, though, would be a chance for Mr. Trump to mark the kind of principles he would pursue if re-elected. “I’m with you,” he likes to say. In this case he could mark vouchers as particularly attractive to families of minority students trapped in failing public schools.
Mr. Trump could even start in North Carolina, which Secretary DeVos recently visited to show her support for efforts to keep schools open for pupils, despite resistance from public school teachers. What a time for Mr. Trump to visit the Tarheel State, which is now too close to call, to talk about following North Carolina’s leader with a voucher program at the national level. Americans seem to be hungering for options. An aide at the Home School Legal Defense Association reckons we could see a 500% increase in homeschooled students this autumn.
In any case, school vouchers are a far better rallying point than guaranteed income, or further payroll protection, both basically entitlements and work deterrents for grown ups. Mr. Trump wouldn’t need to solve the problem before the election. Just to signal the kind of new thinking the crisis has engendered in his policy shop. Given the failures of our school systems, the time is right for vouchers. Particularly since no crisis should be wasted.
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13 Comments
3 years ago
Once they get a taste of freedom via school CHOICE,
they won’t return to the propaganda, indoctrination driven public school system. 
3 years ago
Just skimmed the story, but yeah! Why give money to the school system so they can continue playing their games. I say defund the public school system across the board until they stop their indoctrination programs and start putting the students education first.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
You are on a roll today!
I look forward to your postings.
3 years ago
Education tyranny must stop!
It shouldn’ matter what your zip code or income is, let it be a CHOICE !
3 years ago
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felix1999
I’d take the Chinese flag off the top of that school building, otherwise great.
3 years ago
In well off districts, schools are largely funded by local property taxes. (In NY, state support mostly goes to poorer districts.) Presumably the voucher would just be for the federal or state supported portion of the cost of schooling? Would poor families or families in poor districts then get bigger vouchers than better-off families?
3 years ago
If I were a parent I would be very happy with being given the choice to receive vouchers for my kids to be educated properly without the liberal leftist agenda that turns grade A students into feral criminals against everyone and everything ! In UK as appeasement they took out school assemblies stating they took up too much time when in reality as I remember them they were brief lessons on how to treat others with respect and the only thing I can think of was that certain parts of our countries heritage was the hymns sung with nothing wrong with them except for the expanding community of whom we’ve been silenced by and since then kids who know nothing taught at home about behaviour, don’t know about God don’t know about love or respect! The bible taken out and the Quran brought in and everything Islamic about how to not offend them even though they are the worst bullies out if you are in the minority where they’ve taken control! I’ve heard of actual white kids one of whom was stabbed in the playground for fun, police called but nothing done , even Indian students singled out so many incidents where only one caused a shopkeeper to be banned from selling fireworks and the like but I can see a future where everywhere has to have bag checks and metal detectors. My friends lad lived a life of hell , chased out of school into a shop by armed muslims with razor blades tapes into their sleeves but despite the end result was the culprit leader had family issues so that was ok , so if your white your a target hence many a school girl has gone missing too over decades and the grooming gangs are only now being caught but not the whole tribe of them so that’s why our kids lives are important and are warned of the dangerous behaviour of the culture of multiculturalism and what can happen if they are poor and can get lured in with the promise of gifts not knowing they are seen as a piece of meat ! If I had girls I would have home schooled them before sending them anywhere like there is now !My kids, because of their surname and dark hair had to pretend that they were muslim even though they hate everything about the religion and do not follow it as one believes in Christ while the other thanks to Darwinism doesn’t ! That’s how much it takes to lead them astray 8 years ! University Darwinism and pro Islam leading those who are of believers astray!
3 years ago
The public is the customer. If teachers just babysat in the classroom, even the parents would not know about it unless someone told them. It is so bad that the parents are uneducated, and denied as even role models for their children; so the schools want to provide the same benefit to the next generation.
Money is a good start, but the system is in a state of failure. You cannot improve something that does not work, but you can build an alternative that does, and give people the option.
3 years ago
DEFUND THE SCHOOLS!
ABOLISH THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION!
3 years ago
45 years of DEMOCRATS INDOCTRINATION schools.
We see the results.
F..k the DEMOCRATS!
