Posted on 11/19/2023 10:42:22 PM PST by 11th_VA
Parents, children, lawmakers and educators gathered at an ‘Education Freedom Rally’ in Jackson on Wednesday.
The event, hosted by the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, was attended by over 120 people, with representatives from half a dozen different organizations taking part.
“Last week saw the Republicans win a super majority in Mississippi. Parents at our rally would like to see them use that majority to achieve major strategic change in Mississippi education,” explained Douglas Carswell, CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
Corey DeAngelis of the Federation for American Children spoke at the event, explaining why school choice is essential in order to improve education in Mississippi. Over half a dozen states – including neighboring Arkansas - now have universal school choice programs, with families having control over their child’s education tax dollars. Families in Arkansas can now allocate that money, worth about $9,000 - $10,000 a year to a school of their choice.
“Moms and dads in Arkansas can spend that money from the government to send their child to a public school, private school, church school, charter school or even home school. They can even use the money to buy their child extra tuition if they need support in certain subjects,” Carswell explained. “We believe families in Mississippi should have the same right.” ...
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The school district I live in, East Jasper County, is basically non-functional. You could not send a child to that school, it would be child abuse. It’s made our property values fall into the gutter because there essentially isn’t a school here and the closest private school is 30 miles away. Any families with children have moved out resulting in an aging rural area with no growth potential. It’s actually a nice area but no young people will move here because there isn’t a functioning school therefore we’re dying. You have to have young families to thrive otherwise you eventually die off. Allowing school choice would likely bring back a lot of young people and revitalize the area.
Those parents are getting uppity on account of outside agitators. Imagine thinking their kids could get educated however they want. What’s the world coming to. Time to put on our Antifa uniforms, mask up and pay them a visit./parody
Start educational cooperatives, with parents lending their homes and yards to volunteer teachers, who can instruct in the basics of Reading, Writing, ‘rithmatic and Reasoning without all the BS. People are already doing that in California and other places with failed education systems. With school choice it can be funded, but start now. The funding will follow.
This could be a long reply. I had one daughter that after college, wanted to teach, so she took a masters program to get a teaching degree. After doing some TA time in the DC school system (required for the degree), she dropped out of the program.
The other one has a science degree and home schools - the kids are WAY ABOVE level - they go to a co-op school twice a week (held in a church) where other home school parents teach subjects they have degrees in. (My daughter teaches science).
None of the discipline problems you see in public schools, and the teachers are super dedicated
Exactly, that's what my kids are doing - see post above
It’s the next big thing imho. Politicians and “professionals” are either too slow or are the problem. If there’s no law enforcement, vigilantes spring up. If there’s no education, homeschooling and coops spring up, as naturally as nature reasserts itself on uncultivated land.
It takes a while to correct 112 years of democrat control of a state. Mississippi is definitely making progress.
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi ranks 35th in the nation for K-12 achievement in 2021, climbing from 50th in 2013, according to the latest Quality Counts report published in Education Week.
The report examines achievement in school systems from prekindergarten through grade 12 and socioeconomic factors leading to success in adulthood.
Mississippi earned an overall grade of C-minus (70.8 out of 100 points), close to the nation’s overall grade of C (76.2 out of 100 points).
TX is trying, but as usual, the RINO wing of the Republicans is working with Democrats to keep it from happening.
When school choice is implemented, won’t the students that parents are trying to get away from have school choice as well? Is it possible that the bad students will just be dispersed into the current good schools? The bad students are not going to just disappear. I don’t know if this school choice thing is going to work out the way people think it will.
“I don’t know if this school choice thing is going to work out the way people think it will.”
Not much ever does. But it will be a damned sight better than what they have now.
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“Not much ever does. But it will be a damned sight better than what they have now.”
I used to live in a city that is a majority white, solid middle class area. The county high school for this area was a majority black, in-the-hood high school. It was bad. The city broke off from the county school system and started its own school system. It is great for a public school. If true school choice is implemented the trouble makers from the other school would be able to come to the new school. Their behavior and intelligence will not suddenly improve. This will not make things better.
Private schools do not have to take all comers.
Government schools do.
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Yes, but those "bad students" will be handled differently than is currently done in "public" schools (i.e. stricter discipline). The experiment has already been done multiple times...with superior results.
FR needs more posts like this and fewer posts of outrageous statements by known leftists.
One school in Mississippi, Corinth, went against the grain and used the Cambridge system of learning and was ranked as one of the top fifty schools in the nation by a national publication. The Mississippi Union school teachers and administration ranked the school as one of the worst and continually rail against it because the superintendent refuses to go along with the rest of the state. The ACT scores of the students from there tell a different story. The black Democrat union leadership of the state keep the schools from improving. The Mississippi Magnet school in Columbus ranks as one of the best schools in the nation.
It’s heartbreaking that only 120 people could find it within themselves to stand up and be seen/heard when it regards their own offspring.
It’s just terrible. Nobody, nobody wants to be involved.
Apathy is rampant on our side.
“Yes, but those “bad students” will be handled differently than is currently done in “public” schools (i.e. stricter discipline).”
I guess when the feral student beats the living crap out of the teacher they’ll give him twice as much detention. That’ll work. The difference in schools is not the discipline. It’s the students. The ones I’m talking about don’t have the intelligence to stay out prison. They sure don’t care about school discipline. And the schools will not be able to expel them.
“Private schools do not have to take all comers.”
When there is school choice the private schools can just reject the black students showing up with their vouchers? Cool.
“ When there is school choice the private schools can just reject the black students showing up with their vouchers?”
You have some kind of problem with that?
I don’t.
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