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I hate it. It will only drive tuition up in the private schools and the same kids will be attending. Why don’t we fix the problem we have with public schools using this money? Reduce the number of administration positions, empower the teachers to discipline students in the class, kick kids out if they are disciplinary problems, and hold parents accountable for students being shite heads.

None of this will happen. EVER. And anybody who thinks it will is living in an alternate reality. There's hardly an institution that has the bureaucratic and politically entrenched rot that public education has. And they make it about the kids to appeal to emotion, when the powers-that-be couldn't give 2 shits about the kids.

My son is currently in k3 private school (in MS), but we've gone through the loopholes to send him to a public school district in the next county over that has much better state test scores, student to teacher ratio, etc. because we're proactive. Is this not a possibility in LA? We had to pay the equivalent of what we would in taxes to send him there.

Perhaps a solution would be more money to those who utilize those taxpayer refunds to go to another public school?

One thing you can be sure of, the proactive parents will be the ones using this. The piece of shite trash parents aren't going to go out of their way to send their children elsewhere and deal with the extra effort required.

As a libertarian though, I fully expect the government to frick things up. The government, especially the federal government, shouldn't even be involved in education. Everything they meddle with goes to shite, you can COUNT on it. There will be ramifications for this bill, but overall I'm for it. Refund as much of the taxpayers' money as they possibly can that they steal from us.