Prick Scott wants to blow up the public education system. He wants vouchers for all (even the rich)

[Orlandodem]

This guy is going to be a nightmare. Vouchers for ALL? Are you crazy? Our constitution calls for a uniform system of public educationa and this would create so many different systems it's not even funny. This man is about to destroy the backbone of any society.

The Florida Education Association needs to start acting now!

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/gov-elect-rick-scott-hints-at-school-vouchers-for-all-at-st-petersburg/1139033

[AlienGirl]

1. A consequence no one has spoken about

How long before homeschoolers demand the money be paid directly to them?

Tucker

[Orlandodem]

2. Actually, from what I've been reading you can take your voucher and apply it towards your

child's college education.



SCOTT'S EDUCATION PLAN DOESN'T JIBE!

Our I-can't-believe-he-was elected governor, Rick Scott, has gotten a bum steer. He's letting himself be manipulated on education policy by Jeb Bush. During Jeb's eight years in office, he instituted reforms that failed significantly to improve Florida schools.

During Charlie Crist's four years, Jeb plotted to remake education in his image through a number of failed draconian measures. He still thinks he's governor.

On Jeb's advice, even before Scott's been sworn into office, he's turning into "Governor-giveaway." He wants to raid the state treasury of public education funds and completely privatize public education. According to accounts in the St. Petersburg Times, Scott recently publicly touted his plan to give potentially all primary and secondary students taxpayer money from public school budgets so they can go to any school they want. But his vouchers-for-everybody plan has actually been concocted by Jeb's Foundation for Florida's Future.

Here's how the Bush/Scott plan to dismantle public education works: Every year, parents would be able to receive state funds for an Education Savings Account equal to 85 percent of the amount a student would have generated in the public school system. The current state per-pupil funding is $6,843. So, if the program were underway, parents would get $5,474 per student.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/fl-sgcol-scott-oped1226-20101223,0,5338191.column

Parents, teachers, students, and those without kids need to contact their legislators NOW to stop this from happening!

[HockeyMom]

3. Funding religion

Those are the only schools which even come close to the voucher money. One private school in Naples charges anywhere from $14,000 to $18,000 depending on the grade. WHO do they think will benefit from a $6,000 voucher at a $16,000 a year school? Only those who could ALREADY afford it. RICH KIDS.

Parochial schools are around $6,000 to $7,000. So this will be funding RELIGIOUS schools, not non sectarian privates. Homeschool? Yep, I can just see some of the, um, single "mothers", I have met who would just love to get an extra $6,0000 (per child?) and just blow the money on, well, you fill in the blank.

Diaster in the making. Yes, they want to dismantle public education in order to keep the rich in power and dumb down the middle class and add to the ranks of poor and uneducated peons to work for THEM.

I work with special needs kids. Where will THEY go with this? Bring back institutions and lock them away?

[Maat]

4. Actually, we go through a charter school ...

homestudying ... and we DO get an allowance per semester - which we can use for tutors, etc. I send my daughter to classic art classes with it.:) It's just a couple of hundred dollars per semester, though, and the check is cut directly to the qualified vendor.

I'm not for vouchers, though. I'm certainly not for the privatization of education.