One of the biggest victims of government overreach during the coronavirus pandemic has been America’s schoolchildren.
For months, many schools across the country have been closed in the name of slowing the spread of the virus, despite ample evidence that school closures were misguided from the start.
Even the CDC director has agreed that schools should be open. Nevertheless, scores of schools remain closed.
Some states, however, are beginning to push back.
In Virginia, Republican lawmaker Michael J. Webert has introduced House Bill 1742, which would tie certain school funding to in-person instruction.
“[I]n the event that any school board does not provide the option of in-person instruction as the sole method of instruction for any enrolled student,” the bill reads, “the parent of any such student who withdraws his child from attendance to receive, upon request, an education voucher.”
The voucher would be equal to “a prorated share of the applicable Standards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division, including the per-pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per-pupil share of special education funding for which the child is eligible, to cover the expenses of providing in-person instruction in an alternative setting.”
This would be huge for so many young learners and their parents.
So because you’re too lazy to do some learning at home activities with your children we should risk them being carriers of a deadly virus? And the solution, as usual for Republicans, is take away money. They line their pockets with our money then sweep the rug when we need it most.
I do those “learning activities” and they are a joke!
Some of us are not lazy, but hard working people that were thrown into this like everyone else.
We lost our daycare, then lost our schools teaching. We STILL pay taxes, however for the lazy democrats to sit on their butts. Don’t you worry anon 9:33, I’m still teaching my kids to be good and productive citizens so they don’t wind up freeloading losers. I’m sure they will be funding the likes of YOU when all the social security money runs out!
Look around you, you think the dumbing down of society is bad now….wait till you see the next generation. Parents need to make extra effort to educate their children so ALL is not lost. The communist that have infiltrated all aspects of the system are in it for the long haul, to destroy the minds of our children so they as adults can be completely controlled.
About friggin time SCHOOL VOUCHERS NATION WIDE!!!
A very common sense bill, in all other aspects of life it is considered fraud and a crime to pay for something that you don’t get,why should the government be allowed to commit fraud and get away with it.
It’s way past time to bust up the public “school” system. They need the competition from private and charter schools. Give us our tax money back and make the schools ask US for our money while competing with other schools for quality in education!