New Texas poll shows overwhelming support for school choice

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@DeAngelisCorey: NEW TEXAS POLL: "Do you support or oppose school choice, which allows parents to use state funding to send their children to charter or private schools?" Support: 62% Oppose: 25% . Rep. Ind. Dem. Su...…

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[seeker_two]

I'm good with it as long as public schools get to play by private school rules, too. Keep the competition on a level field....

 

[GasGuzzler]

New member from Austin. Not clicking link.

 

[madwildcat]

New member from Austin. Not clicking link.

Its a clean link, at least by my scans.

 

[popper]

Just another worthless poll.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Its a clean link, at least by my scans.

Missed my point.

 

[Wudidiz]

If all parents had the option of letting the state pay for their kids to go to a private school, why would anyone go to a public school?

 

[pronstar]

Dem and Rino parties in Texas have repeatedly said this will never happen.
Will of the people be damned…

There’s too much money at stake.

 

[Big Green]

#AbolishGovernmentSchools

I’d prefer to see the state (meaning any ISD) not take any of my money. I pay the gov then have to pay out of pocket for all the homemschool curriculums. But at least our little ISD got a football stadium year before last, never mind they nearly lost their accreditation four years before that. I believe it’s less than 500 kids total in grades K-12 combined.

 

[SrsTwist]

New member from Austin. Not clicking link.

*post deleted because I responded badly to a personal attack*

GG: You're on 'ignore' now, so don't bother going forward.

 

[SrsTwist]

Dem and Rino parties in Texas have repeatedly said this will never happen.
Will of the people be damned…

There’s too much money at stake.

The pressure from the public for school choice is growing. And it's not just from the right. A lot of Blacks and Hispanics would love to get their kids out of the shitty public schools they're trapped in. It's not just that they're getting a bad education. Those kids' lives are in danger from the gang violence in a lot of public schools in poor neighborhoods. Also kids are forcibly recruited into gangs in schools. Parents are fed up and getting angrier all the time.

 

[TheDan]

*post deleted because I responded badly to a personal attack*

GG: You're on 'ignore' now, so don't bother going forward.

wuss... Tell him to get fucked in public like a man.

 

[SrsTwist]

wuss... Tell him to get fucked in public like a man.

I did, then deleted it out of respect for the forum rules.

 

[Chief DAC]

I sacrificed and sent three kids to private school with no help from the government while paying school taxes the entire time. If you take government funding, don't they sort of get to tell you what to do? My kids worked their way through college with a little help from me and all graduated with no school loans. My vote is figure out a way to do it without the government.

 

[pronstar]

I sacrificed and sent three kids to private school with no help from the government while paying school taxes the entire time. If you take government funding, don't they sort of get to tell you what to do? My kids worked their way through college with a little help from me and all graduated with no school loans. My vote is figure out a way to do it without the government.

That’s how I was raised.

My parents struggled to put my sister and I thru private schools, all the while paying property taxes for government schooling we did not receive.

My kids ain’t going to public schools, so I’d welcome vouchers.

 

[GasGuzzler]

#AbolishGovernmentSchools

I’d prefer to see the state (meaning any ISD) not take any of my money.

The State and the ISD are very much separate in how they operate and what they do in the matter although both are thieves of sorts.

 

[Big Green]

The State and the ISD are very much separate in how they operate and what they do in the matter although both are thieves of sorts.

I literally put what I meant by “state” in that quote. That’s exactly why I said it that way, thought it was pretty clear.