Disability disguise
Missouri Pro-Vote says that the school choice movement is now hiding behind special-needs students in its efforts to privatize public education in the state. Pro-Vote is urging advocates of public education to call or email their state representative and tell them to protect our public schools by voting “NO!” on House Bill 1886. HOW HORRIBLE IS IT THEY SAY THE SCHOOL CHOICE MOVEMENT IS HIDING IN SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN? WHERE IS THE NEA HIDING THEN? THIS NEGATIVITY IS ONLY GOING TO HURT SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN. IT DOES NOT HURT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, IN FACT, IT WOULD HELP THEM! IF A SCHOOL CANNOT PROPERLY EDUCATE A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, IT MAY BE DRAINING RESOURCES TO TRY. IF THIS LEGISLATION PASSED, IT WOULD ALLOW THAT CHILD TO CHANGE SCHOOLS, PAID FOR BY PRIVATE MONIES, AND LET THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THE OTHER CHILDREN. IT IS NOT TRYING TO PRIVATIZE PUBLIC EDUCATION, IT IS TRYING TO GIVE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN A CHANCE. NOT EVERY SCHOOL CAN EDUCATE EVERY SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD PROPERLY...WHY NOT GIVE THOSE CHILDREN A CHANCE SOMEWHERE ELSE? IF THE CHILDREN/PARENTS ARE HAPPY WHERE THEY ARE, THEN THEY STAY THERE. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILD THAT IS NOT HAPPY AND DOING WELL? WHY SHOULD THEY FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS? IT IS JUST NOT RIGHT!
This bill would create an 80 percent tax credit for donations to private scholarship funds providing payments for students with disabilities to attend private or religious schools. It would do nothing to fulfill the State’s duty to establish and maintain quality schools, but it would divert millions of dollars away from public schools. House Bill 1886 does nothing to help public school students or to fund specific programs to help students with disabilities. IT DOES NOT DIVERT MILLIONS AWAY FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. OBVIOUSLY, THEY HAVE NO LEGS TO STAND ON HERE SO THEY ARE JUST MAKING THINGS UP. IN FLORIDA, IT HAS SAVED THE STATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THE KEY HERE IS "PRIVATE MONEY" WILL BE USED TO PAY FOR THE SCHOLARSHIPS. DO THEY NOT WANT THESE CHILDREN TO SUCCEED? SURELY, THEY CANNOT BE THAT INSENSITIVE, BUT THAT IS THE WAY THEY COME OFF TO ME. THE TAX CREDITS ARE ARE A GOOD INCENTIVE FOR DONATIONS...AGAIN, NOT GOVERNMENT MONEY.
Pro-Vote urges advocates of public education to call the Missouri Capitol switchboard at 573-751-2000 and ask for your state representative (if needed, first ask the operator to help you identify your legislator). Then ask your legislator where he or she stands on HB 1886. Give them your name and address so they know you are their constituent. After you make the call, let Pro-Vote know how it went. PLEASE DO CALL THE CAPITAL SWITCHBOARD, AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE IN SUPPORT OF THIS LEGISLATION! AND INTERESTING PROVOTE WANTS YOU TO CALL AND INFORM THEM ON HOW YOUR LEGISLATOR IS VOTING...ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO BE LITTLE SPIES? I FIND IT A LITTLE FISHY!
Pro-Vote also reports that it has registered over 6,500 new voters in the last two months at mass transit stops in the St. Louis metro area, as part of Pro-Vote’s “non-partisan program to make sure that low and moderate income voters are able to participate in this year’s crucial elections.” THIS LEGISLATION WILL REALLY HELP THE LOWER/MODERATE INCOME VOTERS WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN. SPECIAL SCHOOLS CAN COST THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS! I HAVE MET PARENTS IN MY CHILD'S SCHOOL WHO HAVE SOLD THEIR HOUSE AND THEIR CARS IN ORDER TO AFFORD THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS THAT WILL GIVE THEIR CHILD THE OPPORTUNITIES THEY DESERVE.
FOR THOSE SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN FAILING IN THEIR SCHOOLS, LETS OPEN UP OUR EYES AND OUR HEARTS AND GET THIS LEGISLATION PASSED!!!
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