It wouldn't be a Missouri legislative session if Sen. Ed Emery, R-Lamar, not pushing anti-public school legislation.
Once again this year, Emery is sponsoring a bill that would provide scholarship accounts that parents could use to send their children to private schools or private religious schools.
Emery uses the old argument that parents should have a choice in where they send their children for their education. Parents do have the choice, but Emery says taxpayers should pay for it by taking money from public schools.
In his weekly podcast, Emery notes, "I'm going to have to come down on the side of the students every time," saying it is more important to build strong people than to build strong educational institutions.
Emery's simplistic solution may have worked when it came to cell phone companies, but trying to apply that logic to vital public institutions like schools, police departments and fire departments does not work. All it does is weaken the institutions whose mission is to provide services for the entire public.
This may come as a big surprise to you and other public school teachers, but neither taxpayer children nor tax dollars exist in order to give you parasites a job or access to children.
ReplyDeleteWhat should be most important to taxpayers is keeping costs down while actually educating children according to the values and mores of their parents.
Ed Emory thinks that school vouchers, including paying less for parents to stay at home educating their children and private academies at a fraction of the expense of tax-payer funded schools is best because it introduces competition.
Ed Emory is correct. Last thing anyone needs is Randy Turner non-family liberal values.
I think you meant to say morals so there I fixed that for you. It is painfully obvious you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Public educators in the state of Missouri are not afraid of any sort of competition because I will guarantee you the quality of teaching is better in public schools and it is Charter Schools. You simply need to take a look at the statistics across Missouri to see how many failed or failing charter schools there are. Once again this model has never proven to be successful anywhere on a large scale. It's a failed model and a myth that continues to get pushed by people who are out to fulfill a political agenda. It seems they have absolutely no real ability to do any research themselves to see why charter schools are of no value whatsoever to education.
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ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely correct— Senator Emory knows his stuff!!!
As an example, I grew up in south Louisiana where Roman Catholic school systems are developed to their fullest.
The Public Districts are the first to tell you, they could not exist without the Parochial system in place.
And,, these Catholic schools cater to all varieties of ethnic and sociology-economic groups,
e.g. St. Augustine is traditionally and predominantly African American— they have the greatest HS marching band in all of America, a premier football team that produced Leonard Fournette, LSU All American, and maybe this year’s Rookie of the year , almost getting the Jacksonville Jaguars to the Super Bowl. And this is not to belittle many, many more— such as Redemptorist, DeLaSalle, Jesuit,
( sorry about slipping LSU in there, but once a Tiger like myself, always a Tiger)
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St. Augustine is traditionally and predominantly African American— they have the greatest HS marching band in all of America, a premier football team that produced Leonard Fournette, LSU All American, and maybe this year’s Rookie of the year , almost getting the Jacksonville Jaguars to the Super Bowl.
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I bet the pre game pep rallys are straight outta the 1950s!
Rah. Rah.
What the marching band and football team have to do with getting the children a proper edumacation is another question.
The football TEAM and Marching Band teach children( or anyone) to work TOGETHER!!
ReplyDeleteI haven’t been to their pep rally lately, I live 1,000KM+ away now. I would guess it could be right out of the ‘50’s; and if so that’d be awesome; best times of our life and national history!! I’ll stop anywhere to hear and see that.
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1037, I agree. The God squad simply will not accept the challenges of educating kids from families that have financial issues as well as other forms of disfunction. It is such a stupid argument that they make. They blame teachers for the social problems faced by public school teachers. My kids have received academic scholarships after being educated at r-8 schools. I do not qualify for financial, but I sure as hell don't take it out on the poor. I guess those that have never been poor cannot appreciate this. I cannot wait to leave this self righteous area.
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