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School vouchers: What you're saying

JACKIE MEEKS


This week, the Daily News Journal posted this question on Facebook and dnj.com: Should the next session of the Tennessee General Assembly approve a school-voucher program for the state? Why?
Comments:
Jimmy White: Yes because the schools any many areas are failing!
Bob Schultz: Yes. Allows parents to get kids out of failing schools
Erica Langlois: The schools in Tennessee are amazing. I have had a child in the Rutherford County school system and in Livingston Parish (Louisiana) school system. Teachers and schools are way better than what Louisiana has to offer. Be happy with what you have!
Mary Miller: Christians say yes so their schools can be funded. Muslims are saying the same thing. I don't live in TN but it seems to me that states need to do everything they can to provide a good public education to all. Some children are in a classroom more than they are home. It is here they are exposed to a diversity that they will be called to deal with their entire life. They get practice in tolerance and seeing things from different perspectives. God has given the