re: Congrats to all Alabama parents of the OT: massive k-12 reform officially happening

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How do you properly fund or oversee useful spending for homeschool? I like the rest, and glad the folks of the state itself voted to open the enrollments, but that item is glaring for questions.

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I know here in Arkansas homeschoolers will get just a small portion of what everyone else is getting. Which is honestly fine. We looked at renting our homeschoolers out to people for manual labor instead of educating them. Then we would just pocket the states money and get rich. Turns out they aren’t handing much out.

Relax Francis, the state isn’t going to go broke throwing a few hundred dollars a semester to homeschoolers to help with an online class or two.

School Choice is a buzzword that for some reason conservatives have latched onto.

Like someone pointed out, household income has to be 140,000 grand to even get the full benefit of a 7 grand tax break. So what is really going down? Private schools going to increase tuition or change their policy to accept “special students” to soak up some more money ?

School choice is the most short sighted conservative movement there is. Instead of trying to apply common sense principles and having a backbone in the legislature to shoot down the unions and fix public, they will scream “choice” and just frick up the private schools too.

Education has turned into test scores for fed money and getting a college degree for a job. Education is supposed to be about discipline and learning HOW to think. Public schools aren’t working but this magical choice does absolutely nothing.

Oh and all parents have a CHOICE now to help their kids with homework, make them read, keep them occupied with some kind of productive hobby…but they don’t. That is why public school sucks. Because a bunch of low IQ people have kids with the same genes and on top of that don’t give a shite about them.

So public schools won’t be fixed unless you focus more on discipline and basics and magically sending kids to a private school does nothing.

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Mountain Brook and Vestavia are basically private schools

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wring. MB schools are not that good. not even in the upper echelon of Bham suburbs.

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Seems like the bill provides a credit to those who already have the means to put their kids in private or homeschool. Which isn’t a bad thing, but I don’t see how this is massive K12 reform.

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So now people of Alabama can actually use their tax dollars on their own children and stop subsidizing these shitty schools with tenured teachers who can't be fired?

Oh no, the horror.

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So now people of Alabama can actually use their tax dollars on their own children and stop subsidizing these shitty schools with tenured teachers who can't be fired? Oh no, the horror.

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Where did I say it was a bad thing?

A lot of you are absolutely retarded.

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So you're worrying about Home School instead of the GIANT problems right in front on you? Public ED is crap, focus on fixing that. Worrying about a small segment that tends to do a great job is ignoring the bigger pic. Just saying.

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And you think a tax credit will help that?

The only thing that will fix our education system is to fix the home. You can throw money at the school and give tax credits and any other “clever” ideas, but until you stop financially incentivizing lower class people in this country to have more kids this problem will never go away. Our education problem is a “poverty parents don’t give a frick about their kids” problem. Until the welfare state is fixed education will continue to decline.

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UNIVERSAL SCHOOL CHOICE.

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So all the best schools are about to get overloaded with trash.

Private schools finda eat.

Sounds like the cost of private school is about to go up