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In a State With School Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them (www.propublica.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So you are coming from a place that has:

no experience with how this system works
Your kids are not actively in the public system and you yourself admit you don't know what it's like in your area
You have no understanding of the current teacher shortage by saying that people will just train up to fill new roles (we already have a shortage in stem, with overloaded classes, but sure there will magically be people who want to train to enter this low income career that you're suggesting take on either lower pay for small classes or more pay for even larger classes in another section...)
You're advocating for a charter model while talking about the public system despite there being a huge gap between the two in terms of responsibility towards the entire student population in their area (charters don't have to follow all the rules that are tied to federal funds thanks to the Supreme Court, so they can deny the difficult to teach students, not even talking about behavior or grades but disability, which I guess is fine by you as long as it's not your kid getting excluded)
Common core is simply the idea that there needs to be a standard set of knowledge taught to everyone as a baseline for well educated citizens. That's not a bad idea conceptually though it does get messed with a lot because there isn't enough funding to actually follow through on it vis a vis teaching staff and support.

I'd be happy to keep going with this but you're missing a lot and I already am overworked with my current students.