Vouchers pay millions to religious schools -- Bob DeMars
About $250 million from Wisconsin taxpayers will be used as tuition vouchers for pupils attending private schools during next school year.
It is wrong that the planned annual state outlay for voucher pupils will be up to $8,403 while that for public school pupils will be only $6,703. Voucher funds will be subtracted from and handicap public schools. Furthermore, the vast majority of of the 163 voucher schools will be Christian K-12 schools, many of which will provide religious instruction.
By distributing millions of our tax dollars to so many Christian schools, our state violates the spirit of our Constitution by its preferential advancement of one religion. The Parental Choice Program was enacted to help low income parents transfer their children from public schools to private schools assumed to provide improved instruction. Multiple studies show that academic accomplishment of voucher school pupils does not exceed that of public school pupils.
Voucher schools are very much a business. Politicians supporting them are financially backed by wealthy individuals and organizations that are not motivated toward raising our youngsters to be competent citizens in a democracy. We Wisconsinites must complain about this and vote accordingly.
Bob DeMars, Madison
Source: www.host.madison.com
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