Left Cries Foul Over Christian School’s Right To Vouchers

[OriZ 3,157]

2 hours ago, 8bit_Theatre said:

One aspect that hasn't been discussed is the fact that everyone in a catchment area pays taxes that go to local schools. 80 year old retirees pay taxes for schools....couples that don't want children pay for schools. So why should people with kids be allowed to take their tax dollars to a private school when the general population doesn't have that choice?

 

Public school is a general service for the improvement and quality of the local community. Its not something that should be opted out of.

 

I say this as someone who went to private school until University level.

I just realized I posted my results in the wrong thread. Stupid laptop.

 

 

Anyway. I agree with you. Everyone pays the same taxes for the same things whether they use them or not. Not sure why education should be any different - I have always viewed private education as a bonus, something that if you can afford to pay for on top of taxes - good for you. Shouldn't be able to use the same money to pay for it though. Personally I'd be happier with being able to opt out of SS taxes first.

Edited June 21, 2017 by OriZ

[smilesammich 10,727]

15 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Thanks for womanspalning for me.. I wasn't  implying your son needed a special school. If anything like mommy he is a very bright funny little commie 🤣

he's exactly that, i'm quite proud

back when i was in elementary school, many kids with 'disabilities' on level with my kid just refused to do the work and got held back. the fear of being held back was enough motivation for most kids to try, at least enough to pass. but they don't hold kids back anymore. for my kid, he had attention issues and his maturity level just wasn't there when he should have been learning the basics. hardly a case for a specific disability school. the iep gives me the choice as to what goals i want his teachers to work on with him each year. i get reports on his progress at the end of each grading period. my kid passed (barely, but still) both his sols this year (a first) so, i'm a satisfied taxpayer.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

he's exactly that, i'm quite proud

back when i was in elementary school, many kids with 'disabilities' on level with my kid just refused to do the work and got held back. the fear of being held back was enough motivation for most kids to try, at least enough to pass. but they don't hold kids back anymore. for my kid, he had attention issues and his maturity level just wasn't there when he should have been learning the basics. hardly a case for a specific disability school. the iep gives me the choice as to what goals i want his teachers to work on with him each year. i get reports on his progress at the end of each grading period. my kid passed (barely, but still) both his sols this year (a first) so, i'm a satisfied taxpayer.

That describes me in school. Brilliant underachiver.  Went I got to College I did stuff like make an A in advanced genetics and flunk psychology in the same quarter. I found psychology boring so never tried and rarely went to class 

[yuna628 9,646]

50 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

iep is an individual education plan. kids with all sorts of varying degrees of 'disability' get them in public school. my kid got an add diagnosis in the 2nd grade and i've never had to put him on medication for it because im able to tweak his learning environment through the iep. he doesnt need medication or a special school just for his attention deficit. 

Or you could be like me who didn't have an IEP, didn't have a diagnosis for years, and even after diagnosis no ability to seek out a school or curriculum that could provide me any assistance. I just dealt with it and figured out how to keep learning in the spite of the problems I did have out of necessity (a type of visual-spatial processing disorder that didn't even have a name at the time). Parents were too poor to pay for types of therapy.. heck, they barely had enough for tuition every year. It was great when someone finally told me what was wrong, but there was no one that could really assist. My nephew has also suffered greatly in the UK school system... he has severe dyspraxia, and early on they thought medicating him was the answer (it wasn't and he continued to have complete meltdowns in school without IEPs and teachers that knew how to help). I'm so very glad there's resources out there for kids these days, but it still needs work.

[IAMX 3,055]

1 hour ago, ccneat said:

Isnt the NDP in charge? 

Just a message to the PC's.. won't happen again in 2019. Province was fed up of the NDP a few months into the election. 

Edited June 21, 2017 by IAMX

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Just now, IAMX said:

Just a message to the PC's.. won't happen again in 2019.

Still to the left of American Politics

[IAMX 3,055]

1 minute ago, ccneat said:

Still to the left of American Politics

Not really.

 

If you look at the federal layout of how the HOC is set up, Alberta has 34 seats:

29 Conservative

4 Liberal

1 NDP

 

Which was a year after the provincial elections.

 

A new record for a province being fed up with the left.