Ravenwood - 01/06/06 07:00 AM
The Florida Supreme Court struck down the state's school voucher program. Rather than rule on the traditional "separation of church and state" argument, they instead ruled that all Florida schools must suck equally.
In a 5-2 ruling, the high court said the program undermines the public schools and violates the Florida Constitution's requirement of a uniform system of free public education...Actually, vouchers raise the money available per student by removing a student, but only a percentage of the student's funding. (For instance if the state spends $10,000 per student and the voucher is for only $5,000 there is actually more money available per remaining student.)Chief Justice Barbara Pariente said the program "diverts public dollars into separate private systems parallel to and in competition with the free public schools," which are the sole means set out in the state constitution for educating Florida children.
But you have to love the Marxist reasoning that competition with the "free" schools is bad for the students that attend said "free" school. Instead of celebrating free markets where people have the freedom to choose the best schooling for the best price, government school advocates prefer to keep poor kids in underperforming schools where teachers swear off any measure of accountability and unions hold all the cards.
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Many states have such a public schools provision in their constitutions.
Fixing this may require constutional amendments at the state level.
As for federal stuff ... if the state gets out of the public edication business, the feds have no leverage.
Which leaves the last nuclear option ... budget exactly $1 per year for public schools.
Posted by: Kristopher at January 6, 2006 5:22 PMThese dumb judges should go back to school starting at 1st grade since they cant seem to be able to read themselves
Posted by: sandpiper at January 6, 2006 9:05 PMI wouldn't have expected this, but it's not that much of a surprise.
If we ever needed evidence that the point of the government school system is not to educate but to collectivize and subjugate, we surely have it now.
What's utterly insane is that the vouchers in question are given only to students whose public school has been rated "F" - that is, when the public school IS NOT giving anything resembling equal educational opportunities. Yet, their reason for banning vouchers is that they give unequal educational opportunities. It's a state court ruling on a state constitutional question, but one wonders if they just opened the door for federal courts to intervene on "equal protection" grounds.
Posted by: markm at January 7, 2006 7:15 PMThe problem with them nigras, when the learn to read they sometimes wonder off the plantation. No vouchers for you.
Posted by: ck at January 7, 2006 10:18 PMTalk about bigoted thinking.
I find it funny that one who criticises educating people doesn't know how to spell.
It appears ck is just parroting liberal hatespeech towards blacks who do not toe the line on the issues.
School vouchers are the obvious and fair way to improve the lives of minorities, indeed all children. But it works against the interests of the Democratic Party to do so.
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