Comments on: Vouchers Needed to Keep Kids Safe http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/06/04/vouchers-needed-to-keep-kids-safe/ Up To The Minute Analysis Of Ohio Public Policy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: jake haulk http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/06/04/vouchers-needed-to-keep-kids-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-477 jake haulk Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:02:06 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=1825#comment-477 Beth is 100 percent correct. People who oppose vouchers on the grounds that the good or in this case well behaved kids will leave and only the bad students and misbehavers will remain have lost sight of the job of publicly funded edcuation. And that is to provide the means of edcuation. If parents of bad students and violent students cannot control them, too bad, it is not the taxpayers' job. Parents need to know their kids are safe and receiving some education when they send them out the door each morning. Where there is mayhem and lack of order, every nickel spent is being wasted. Seems like a strong argument for vouchers to me. Beth is 100 percent correct. People who oppose vouchers on the grounds that the good or in this case well behaved kids will leave and only the bad students and misbehavers will remain have lost sight of the job of publicly funded edcuation. And that is to provide the means of edcuation. If parents of bad students and violent students cannot control them, too bad, it is not the taxpayers’ job. Parents need to know their kids are safe and receiving some education when they send them out the door each morning.

Where there is mayhem and lack of order, every nickel spent is being wasted. Seems like a strong argument for vouchers to me.

]]> By: Beth Lear http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/06/04/vouchers-needed-to-keep-kids-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Beth Lear Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:18:14 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=1825#comment-474 The Federal Government, as noted in the blog, has already noticed that violence in schools is a problem and that students have the right to a safe and secure education environment. If the Feds have picked up on this, we are much too far behind. Teachers have long complained that they do not have enough options for disciplining poorly behaved students. They are right. But until this problem is resolved, if it ever is, parents should be given the right to send their children to an environment where they do not have to worry that their child will be raped, assaulted or brutalized. Special Needs Scholarships are an answer to this problem for a small number of parents, whose learning and physically disabled children suffer abuse by other students at six times the rate of their non-disabled peers. Are you suggesting that all parents who fear for the safety of their kids don't deserve the same option of removing their children from unsafe schools? I can't think of a more important reason for a voucher. The Federal Government, as noted in the blog, has already noticed that violence in schools is a problem and that students have the right to a safe and secure education environment. If the Feds have picked up on this, we are much too far behind.

Teachers have long complained that they do not have enough options for disciplining poorly behaved students. They are right.

But until this problem is resolved, if it ever is, parents should be given the right to send their children to an environment where they do not have to worry that their child will be raped, assaulted or brutalized. Special Needs Scholarships are an answer to this problem for a small number of parents, whose learning and physically disabled children suffer abuse by other students at six times the rate of their non-disabled peers. Are you suggesting that all parents who fear for the safety of their kids don’t deserve the same option of removing their children from unsafe schools? I can’t think of a more important reason for a voucher.

]]> By: Marc Schare http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/06/04/vouchers-needed-to-keep-kids-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Marc Schare Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:16:26 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=1825#comment-463 I must be missing the point. What is Buckeye proposing? Should the "dangerous" kids get vouchers so they go off to a charter school, presumably one that specializes in dangerous kids. Wouldn't they be just as dangerous in their new surroundings? Should the non-dangerous kids get the vouchers leaving just the dangerous kids in the public schools? Or is there something inherent in the public schools that make kids who are predisposed to not be dangerous turn into thugs when they set foot through the door. There are a lot of good arguments for vouchers. This isn't one of them. I must be missing the point. What is Buckeye proposing?

Should the “dangerous” kids get vouchers so they go off to a charter school, presumably one that specializes in dangerous kids. Wouldn’t they be just as dangerous in their new surroundings?

Should the non-dangerous kids get the vouchers leaving just the dangerous kids in the public schools?

Or is there something inherent in the public schools that make kids who are predisposed to not be dangerous turn into thugs when they set foot through the door.

There are a lot of good arguments for vouchers. This isn’t one of them.

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