Comments on: Parental Choice Rebuffed By SC Senate Committee

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:02:22 +0000

Vouchers in Milwaukee only worked to go around the powerful teachers union. Has anyone noticed we don’t have unionized teachers and just about no unions at all, thank god.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:35:03 +0000

BIN,

Listen I know success will never convince you. The fact that vouchers have worked everywhere they have been tried means nothing in SC. In SC we will keep doing it the way we’ve always done it because “nobody is gonna tell us what to do.” Good for us. We will continue to suck hind teat and we will leave more and more kids behind so that these corrupt politicians can keep their “constituents” (owners) happy. What if one more or 50,000 more kids fail at life. So long as those bastards keep their power.

The time is coming, sooner or later.

By: baker

baker — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:21:21 +0000

I meant to say:

This would likely COST a million $ or more in just about every county in the state.

By: baker

baker — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:20:19 +0000

It is a good thing this didn’t go anywhere this year. If the pro-voucher/tax-credit folks want their proposals to be taken seriously, seems to me that they’ve just got to at least iron out some of the most blatant flaws.

For instance, this non-sense about the “Education Opportunity Act” saving public schools money: The plan was for ALL families of private schoolers to get money when everything was fully implemented. This would likely a million $ or more in just about every county in the state. Anyone with half a clue could see the financial impact — and the unlikeliness that this would “save money for the state and for public school districts” or whatever. And I think this undercut the whole proposal.

It’s funny: Public school critics claim that “educrats” are greedy money-grubbers who don’t care about the kids they’re supposed to teach. They also claim that private school choice would be a financial winner for public schools while taking struggling students off the hands of public school districts. If all that is true, then it logically follows that public school “educrats” would be in full support of private school choice plans like the “Education Opportunity Act.” The fact that public school officials are skeptical, I think, suggests that they are well aware that the claims and projections of SCRG and such are extremely faulty.

By: Ermo

Ermo — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:13:07 +0000

GnuBerry seems fixated on keeping kids in failing schools.

By: Tiger Mom

Tiger Mom — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:46:07 +0000

Wow BIN! You sound like a real empty suit. What does past military service have to do with present day poor decision making about state level K-12 education funding policy? A: Nothing
This is the type of brilliant leaps of logic that took us from 911 into Iraq.
Oh, and by the way – today (and every school day this year) another 158 kids dropped out of South Carolina public high schools. Like it or not the Choice folks have proposed a solution. You, on the other hand, have just kept posting blog comments.

By: BIN News Editorial Staff

BIN News Editorial Staff — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:38:24 +0000

The giant sucking sound was the voucher scam going down the toilet, again. Which is what it deserves.

As we’ve said, no Legislator with integrity will vote for a voucher scam. Vouchers really are dead in S.C. Tell Howie’s voucher clowns.

We will watch with interest. If sic(k) willie continues to attack Senators Courson, Hayes and Martin he better wear asbestos underwear.

Courson is a former Marine (once one, always one). Hayes is a West Point grad. Martin served on a Criminal Domestic Violence committee. Remember, sic(k) willie confessed to CDV. They have him on land, sea and courts.

They might just blister his @rse if he is not careful. :)

Everyone remember. Vouchers are dead in S.C. Jake said so.

See you next year, Howie.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced

By: JBV

JBV — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:52:17 +0000

Thank goodness there are still some real Republicans left.

By: GnuBerry

GnuBerry — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:37:54 +0000

You seem obsessed with vouchers.

By: Why School Choice?!

Why School Choice?! — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:22:15 +0000

“Liberals like choice because it gives underprivileged students a chance for a better education. Conservatives like it because it is cheap, fosters competition among schools, and transfers power from administrators to parents. Says Chester Finn Jr., an Assistant Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan: ‘Choice has everything going for it, and nothing against it.’”

“The Fight over School Choice”
Time Magazine
Monday, Mar. 13, 1989