Stossel's views on education

This is not true. It is ideal but certainly not true. If you own rental property and are lucky enough to be able to charge a high enough rent to pay the taxes that is great. My husband and I own a house that we rent out and we are not able to make enough to pay any of the taxes. The house is not in the best area of Houston and in this economy we were lucky to rent it out at all. So we pay school taxes and aren't anywhere near the district we pay them too. On top of that we pay taxes here too. We are paying two sets of school taxes and have one child in ps.

 

actually in the UK they're now saying that's the way the whole homeschool registration process should have been started- offer the parents some small $ worth of support to purchase curriculum if they register. That way they would have come willingly to accept the home/child interviews,etc- as a trade for financial backing. But you see, money always comes with strings. Always.

 

Isn't THAT interesting?

 

They are doing that here in BC as well. You have a choice if you want to sign on the line, receive a small amount of funding, and have a teacher checking in on you; or just tell them you have kids and are homeschooling. I am torn as to whether to sign up for the funding, and have someone monitoring me, or just to do my own thing. But I hear the teachers in our area that do the monitoring are very supportive and helpful (not argumentative), so maybe we'll try it.

 

In addition, public school teachers in some states can make upwards of 80,000 - 100,000 a year. Yet all we hear is that teachers don't get paid enough and schools don't have enough money to educate the students.

I think they should all go virtual. (My cynical remark for the day...)

As for the tax credits - well lookie here....seems like Colorado is making a move. It won't pass, but baby steps, right.
https://www.hslda.org/cms/index.php?q=bill/house-bill-1295-income-tax-credits-nonpublic-education