Readers know that the State Board of education in Arizona actually turned down a parent’s request to use voucher money to buy three dune buggies. Amazing!
Mercedes Schneider digs deeper. In this post, she transcribes the discussion about the vote at the State Board meeting. She includes a list of eight dune buggies at different price points, from about $600 to $$18,000 each. Which did the parent choose?
And she closes with this pertinent question:
If the state of Arizona approves an educational program that involves riding a dune buggy purchased with state money, does the state then open itself up to liability if something happens to the child while operating that state-purchased dune buggy?
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What if a parent wants to use the allotted funds to purchase an assault rifle? Maybe a shotgun is Ok? A Colt 45?
the endless reviewing of purchases would have to expand government to a point way beyond present bureaucracy. This is just crazy.
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Roy–the need to set up a massively bureaucratic control agency is not the only point, but it’s a big one. That’s why we have “administrators.” They are supposed to know how to use OUR money to serve the “everyone” mandate.
Obviously, the movement of charter schools is on a suicidal track, but its demise will still depend on those who have the intelligence, character, and gumption in the face of fear to expose and deny its depravity.
They all have the same disease as Trump, certain people at the SCOTUS and in Congress, too-many CEO’s, and “our” oligarchs. They think freedom is a license for social carelessness . . . it means they can do anything they want (like steal public money for private interests) and get away with it by giving it an Orwellian dressing, and while daring anyone to stop them. The fact that they had to hide voucher funding in a bill that had nothing to do with education at least says they are aware of their nefarious intent.
“GOP, pronounced: Gop: A case of an aggressively spreading moral depravity, Bully Brain, a kind of cancer eating away on their consciences? CBK
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The next thing parents will want to do is purchase dirt bikes, mountain bikes, sail boats for the lakes, paddle boards, maybe just purchase a plane or two, or, pay for all the cellphones the students seem to have to use in the classrooms instead of paying attention to the teachers.
But forget the need to purchase enough books and supplies for the classrooms, fix the roofs on the school buildings, make sure the heating and cooling work, that students and facility are safe from crazy shooters, pay teachers and administrators a living wage for the work they do, etc., etc., etc.
Amazing. Amazingly stupid that something like this should even be considered or happen.
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What happens when a parents seeks approval for their teen to visit a strip club to “explore questions of human sexuality ” on the state ‘s dime?
Just asking
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What happens if parents seek approval to buy Toni Morrison’s book Beloved? I’m guessing for many conservative state board of educations, that would be far more dangerous than a Dune Buggy or assault weapon.
And allowing a parent to spend $17.60 to purchase “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” from Amazon? That would probably be considered outrageous and rejected as an unacceptable expenditure.
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OK I just read the comments. There are only a few but all made good points.
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