MY TURN: Idaho public education and your taxes
The Idaho governor's $50 million carve out to fund homeschooling for unregulated and limited accountability homeschool education curriculums to salve a 7% minority is just wrong. Some of the homeschool kids have educated parents who raise the bar for their brilliant children — wonderful. Many more limit the breadth of their learning and release socially awkward adults into the broader world with limited adaptability or skills needed to launch as contributing citizens.
If the parents are uneducated, that legacy continues. The entire "voodoo" of public school indoctrination is another far right red herring that makes headlines while cheating the majority of students. We are $76 million in the hole in Idaho, $50 million thanks to school vouchers catering to a small cohort of parents. These parents made a choice like some parents choosing high cost private schools for their elite children. Self-determination to homeschool or private school educate your offspring should not burden the taxpayers of Idaho and force 3% cuts across multiple sectors of Idaho government.
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