More on Vouchers

They just won't go away.  School vouchers keep getting dressed up in different costumes but it's the same bad business underneath.  Trying to make it sound like a giveaway from the state that won't give anything away unless you're a multi-million dollar corporation.  If you think Tea Partiers like Lee Bright actually want to level the playing field so your child can go to the top private schools in the state, forget about it.  This voucher plan is masked in deceptive language, and under the disguise it will give away too little and in return suck needed dollars out of public schools.

Good business would dictate that tax dollars pooled for public education would provide the most education for the buck.  When you start dividing up the funding you have less spending power.

Which is the point.  Lee Bright and the other legislators that keep pushing for vouchers, are being funded by big money from out-of-state.  The out-of-towners with the deep pockets have a lot to gain from selling vouchers.  When South Carolina privatizes our schools, those big monied interests stand to make great profit -- at our expense.

And don't let the language fool you.  A "tax deduction" is a tiny fraction of the cost of an education, different than a "tax credit."

There will be an important Voucher Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, October 23 at 5 p.m.  It is critical to show up, and to ask the important questions.  If you are a parent, you deserve the best education for your children; if you are not a parent, you deserve to have your tax dollars well spent on education, and not spent on a plan designed to make our public schools fail, and make us dependent on educational corporations.

Profit driven corporations don't work in health care, they don't work in the prison system, and they don't belong in education.