Why not us? Bring a wide choice of k -12 in SC – South Carolina Daily Gazette

Throughout America, the United States have wide school choices, while children in South Carolina disappear.

Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and other states across the country have wide school selection programs. Similarly, our neighbors in North Carolina and Georgia have adopted measures to choose wide schools.

The Tennessee Government Bill Lee has just announced a program to help 20,000 Tennessee children have the opportunity to attend while recently Florida government Ron Ron Hands has announced that over 500,000 children in Florida are participating in Private School selection programs S

While 1.2 million students in 81 programs across the country are experiencing the choice of a private school, South Carolina is struggling to provide opportunities to choose a school for its K-12 students.

The reason is that the struggle to choose a school is much more about politics than the law.

The education establishment has long been advocating the opportunity to parents, while so many other countries continue to expand in their capabilities.

The battle is even more disrespectful when the obvious reason for the lack of school choice in South Carolina is that “state dollars cannot follow children in private schools.” This position is obviously not in line with the practice of the state.

For more than five decades, South Carolina has been providing grants to study students at college to attend independent colleges and universities in South Carolina. Over the last few decades, scholarships for hope, life and palm scholarships have continued to help students attend public and independent colleges in South Carolina.

For more than two decades, South Carolina has provided scholarships for students before Kindergarten to visit private programs before K throughout the country.

For more than a decade, the southern Carolini have been able to request a tax credit for donations that fund scholarships for students with special needs to attend a K-12 private school. For almost a decade, parents who pay private training for their child with special needs have been able to take a tax credit.

This raises the question: If Taxpayers in South Carolina can provide grants and scholarships for college students, students before K and students with special needs to attend private educational institutions throughout the country, why the state cannot provide grants and scholarships To K -12 students to attend the school of their choice – even if it is private?

If the South Carolina Supreme Court interprets the granting of parents an opportunity to use an educational savings account as unconstitutional, then in order to be consistent, they must perceive that grants for training 21 independent colleges and universities throughout the country are also unconstitutional.

The grants began in the early 1970s, since the provision of grants for training to state students to attend a State Private College, maximally the use of all educational institutions and save state money in unpaid subsidies for students who will otherwise be They enroll in a public college or university in South Carolina.

We can all agree that the educated public is of benefit to all of us – and must be encouraged.

We can all agree that children learn differently and what works for one child may not work for another child.

We can all agree that children do not have to determine their education from their postal code.

We can all agree that some public schools do not do a good job of education for students; However, they are allowed to continue to work.

We can all agree that private schools that do not do adequate work on students’ education will be closed because their parents are gone.

The post -study study shows that students participating in school selection programs are better academic. Studies also show that students in public schools in the countries of school election are better academic. Private school selection programs have been found to save money from taxpayers.

Parents know best when it comes to training their children. Like Southern Carolini, why do we deal with the ends of educational choice when we can join the states like Florida and Arizona and provide broad programs for children?

It is time for South Carolina to go to the class and ask for the answer to the question “Why not us?”