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PudVortex3000 t1_jed1vbz wrote

I’m in Bennington County in a supervisory union that has designated public schools depending on what town/neighborhood you live in. Move one town over into a place like Manchester, Dorset, or Winhall, and you get the option to use your $17k education tax on any school you want.

Tell me how that’s fair to some section 8 kid forced into Bennington public schools vs one in Winhall who can choose among a half dozen local private schools, a couple public schools, and even the option of an out of state boarding school.

Sure as shit, I want to move into one of those towns as my kids enter middle/high school. But damn, if you don’t have the means to pay into the high real estate of the Manchester area, you’re stuck with the public option.

If you can’t offer this option to every Vermont student, it shouldn’t be offered to those in specific towns.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jee5byz wrote

Listen to yourself. You at the same tome acknowledge the superiority of the private schools but if everyone can't have it you'd rather deny it to everyone. It's so cynical and petty that you would deny children a better education because you or someone else might not be able to experience it.

Misery loves company.

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notfornswf t1_jee9fca wrote

No, it's called making the bad choice better. Instead of leaving the public school in a bad situation and making the private school better with public taxes.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jeew5mh wrote

If there is a sub standard product, you don't force everyone to use it in the hopes that it improves. The fact of the matter is that it isnt the $$$ invested. Vermont invests more per student than private schools yet still have sub-standards in the eyes of many, its the meddling of the State and it's organs that depreciate the experience.

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Kixeliz t1_jef37h9 wrote

> If there is a sub standard product, you don't force everyone to use it in the hopes that it improves.

No, you punish the system. That's the only way that works, carrot and stick. So you punish an underperforming school, reduce it's funding and then....somehow....the school improves? Or it goes under, that's cool, too, for the pro-private school folks, at least.

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