A lottery was brought in and part of the profits of the lottery would go to the schools. The state and counties decreased their budgets to the schools to coincide with the money from the lottery. Because of hypocrisy and politics and stupidity and ignorance and the laziness of the voters, a few people eat up with the above, make decisions according to their personal agenda. It is not that hard physically, but it is politically. The March 10 guest column by Sally Lee, legislative chairperson for the Florida PTA, states vouchers would harm the public school system.
Public education is very fearful of competition, the American way.
Public education has a rather poor record in its present no-choice system, not to mention the money taxpayers are pouring down the drain. School choice, through vouchers or tax credits, should not be limited to public schools, but should include private and religious schools also, thereby giving the public schools incentive to improve. Parents pay taxes to provide their children with quality education, and they are not getting a quality education in the public school system. School officials do not want parents to be able to use their tax dollars to send their children to private or religious schools where most public school officials and teachers send their own children. Test scores have proved that home, private and religious school students' scores are higher than those in the public school system.