Comments on: 7% of Colorado students enrolled in charter schools http://www.exvigilare.com/2008/05/16/7-of-colorado-students-enrolled-in-charter-schools/ from vulgar Latin *exvigilare: Latin ex-, ex- + Latin vigilare, to stay awake, from vigil, awake Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: AmyH http://www.exvigilare.com/2008/05/16/7-of-colorado-students-enrolled-in-charter-schools/#comment-2941 AmyH Fri, 16 May 2008 15:46:57 +0000 http://www.exvigilare.com/2008/05/16/7-of-colorado-students-enrolled-in-charter-schools/#comment-2941 Interesting remark about charter school parents paying the same taxes as regular school parents. Every taxpayer has to pay taxes regardless of whether they even had children at all, let alone children in regular public school. And what kind of facilities would you like your tax dollars to pay for as you do charter school at home? Don't mean to be snarky, just for some reason this comment hit me the wrong way, I guess. Paying taxes for schools is just part of the responsibility and privelege of being a homeowner, methinks. Also interesting that your quote mentions charter school money is being taken away from teacher salaries! And books! And equipment! Is it just me or is it all anyone has to do is mention teacher salaries! and people are supposed to be shocked and horrified? Evil charter schools siphoning money from teachers. And once again, the whole tenor of an argument like this is that public education will necessarily be improved if we just throw more money at it. Classic liberal thinking, and IMHO a big fat fallacy. Shutting up now, so I can go educate my own children. Yay homeschooling. Interesting remark about charter school parents paying the same taxes as regular school parents. Every taxpayer has to pay taxes regardless of whether they even had children at all, let alone children in regular public school. And what kind of facilities would you like your tax dollars to pay for as you do charter school at home? Don’t mean to be snarky, just for some reason this comment hit me the wrong way, I guess. Paying taxes for schools is just part of the responsibility and privelege of being a homeowner, methinks.

Also interesting that your quote mentions charter school money is being taken away from teacher salaries! And books! And equipment! Is it just me or is it all anyone has to do is mention teacher salaries! and people are supposed to be shocked and horrified? Evil charter schools siphoning money from teachers. And once again, the whole tenor of an argument like this is that public education will necessarily be improved if we just throw more money at it. Classic liberal thinking, and IMHO a big fat fallacy.

Shutting up now, so I can go educate my own children. Yay homeschooling.

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