The Simple Truth about Vouchers: Private Profiteering off Education with our Taxpayer Dollars.
I've written extensively here about the school privatization scam pushed by Republican politicians, and how the media now refuses to mention how voucher and charter schools are demanding more taxpayer dollars-equal to public schools, in their continuing uncritical assessments. Maybe you'll take the word of a former teacher and now principal of a school in Racine. Voucher and charter supporters, you were warned!!
CaledoniaPatch: Voucher Schools Hurt Racine Unified Students and Schools More Than Help: Mount Pleasant resident Soren Gajewski is Principal of Jefferson Lighthouse School, and he offers his view of the voucher system: As the Directing Principal for Jefferson Lighthouse, and as a former teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system, I feel obligated to warn my neighbors about the impending expansion of the school voucher system.
Initially, the idea was sold as a way to give poor children an opportunity to attend private schools.
Warning signs, for me as a classroom teacher, were seen shortly after the program had begun. Throughout the school year I had several former voucher school students added to my class roster. Those students came for different reasons; their voucher school was shut down due to mismanagement, the school had expelled them or couldn’t handle the child’s disability, or the
