HB193: but they failed to ask and answer the most important question - Granite Grok

HB193: but they failed to ask and answer the most important question

SchoolhouseYet another piece from the Concord Monitor where Don Vallone of Reaching Higher New Hampshire makes the argument, financially, that ONLY Government schools should be allowed to teach your children.  How?  He cries in his cups of how government public schools would be losing money to other entities if HB 193 is enacted.  Boo-hoo (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Two public policy groups provided closer looks Wednesday at the financial impact of a sweeping school choice bill under consideration at the State House. Senate Bill 193 could cost the state $31 million in new spending over five years, an analysis by public school advocacy organization Reaching Higher New Hampshire has found, and the legislation could cost school districts nearly $6 million in state aid in its first year of implementation.

Meanwhile, the Josiah Bartlett Center For Public Policy, a free-market think tank, argued that districts have weathered far larger drops in enrollment in recent years, and even if 5 percent of students use vouchers, districts would still keep 98.7 percent of their budgets intact. It found that from 2010-15, the average change in enrollment was a decline of 7 percent.

…Still, the unreimbursed amounts could add up. If 40 low-income students use the program in Concord, Reaching Higher calculated, the school district would lose $213,000 in state aid – without getting any money back from the state. According to Reaching Higher’s analysis, the Concord school district would suffer a net loss of about $500,000 over five years if 3 percent of its eligible students – about 50 a year – were to use the program.

There’s more from both sides at the post, but let’s go outside the $$ signs.  This is Progressive vs. Liberty, The State vs. the Individual.  This is about Unions with their political money clout vs. Parents being able to choose for their children and make no mistake: Progressives have weaponed up in all ways possible in demanding that THEY are the only ones allowed to make choices for the Parents’ children and not the Parents themselves.

My comment:

The operative question is “who is in charge?” Government school activists like Vallone believe that there should ONLY be public schools thus leaving Government in charge of children (see Portland, ME’ School Board decision to tell teachers to ignore parents if the “government kids” decide to be transgender).

More and more, parents are being squeezed out of the picture on deciding what is right and what is wrong for their kids. Yet, they are the ones that should be making the decisions for their children in all areas of life; Vallone is perfectly happy with taking away one of the biggest areas of a child’s life.

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