So, vote yes so the government can collect even more taxes to give to private schools and then dictate what they can and can’t do? Why do I want to give these criminals MORE money?
Our government has no damn business running public schools. Now you want to let them get a foothold into private? I want them out of education completely!
Some may follow Karen Bracken on Substack. Here is Karen’s comment on the topic:
Nationwide school choice bill clears committee, moves to House floor - THIS IS NOT GOOD - PLEASE contact your US Representative and demand they vote No. Anything the government touches the government destroys. TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL and all of you constitutionally illiterate Americans need to read, research and understand our founding documents. The truth not the lies fed in our schools and by our government. The federal government has ZERO power or authority over education. Art. 1 Sec. 8 lists the 18 enumerated powers delegated to the federal government when the STATES created the federal government. Do you see any mention of education?? Do you see anything about marriage or health or environment listed? If it is not on the list the federal government has no constitutional power or authority and that goes for the Supreme Court as well. What choice in education do parents not have today? Every state in America already has “school choice.” What they now want is for the taxpayer to not only pay for public education but to now pay for private education too. If people understood the truth behind this movement they would not support it. The agenda is to eventually suck ALL school choices into the federal indoctrination system. Whatever they say school choice is today they can and will change it tomorrow. When they implemented Common Core globally one of the goals was to have ALL children under the same education system. That goal is still in effect today. There could be no outliers. What are the outliers? They are home educated children, religious school and private school children. So how do we get those students into the system? Oh I know.......lets offer a carrot to parents and call it school CHOICE……everyone wants choice, right??? Then we will force the taxpayer to pay for it and then eventually we can move the outliers under the same umbrella as the public/charter school students. One day in the future parents will be very sorry when they realize they got snookered again into yet another federal scheme (lie). Our failing education system needs to be fixed but school choice (taxpayer funded) is not the answer. At one time this country was 98% literate. Today we are at about 30%. What happened? What happened is that the federal government got involved and started dictating what schools will teach......oh not directly because that would violate their authority but they did it through funding and grants holding states hostage by the power of the purse. Want the money; you will do what we dictate. We need to get back to what made education great in this country many decades ago but that is not now and never was the goal of education because highly educated people threatens their power. Knowing how to read threatens their power. Dumbed down citizens are easier to deceive and control. WAKE UP PEOPLE this government NEVER does anything that will benefit you or your children
Karen’s substack (she posts a news aggregate every day):
I certainly understand your concerns. I wish you had come to the meeting where the authors of this amendment presented. Kathy, my mom, is on the board of CEO (Commonwealth Educational Opportunities). There is a lot of misunderstanding around this amendment, which we are trying to education on. This amendment does not allow for school choice or for public money to be directed to private schools. Rather, it simply allows the legislature to consider it. Kentucky is one of only two (maybe four?) states in the nation that have something called the Blaine Amendment, a very old, anti-Catholic initiative that makes almost any form of school choice (other than pulling your kids out altogether) nearly impossible. Kentucky can’t even consider any form of legislation, including some things we would all probably agree on.
An amazing liberty law firm by the name of Institute for Justice, (www.ij.org) works for school choice reform around the country (vouchers for parents, tax tuition credits, etc. —things that will put the funding in the hands of the PARENTS so that our public money subsidizes the consumer rather than the supplier). They can’t help us in Kentucky because of the Blaine Amendment. Please note that we are already giving the government the money — money which is to be used to educate our children. Currently, we are also allowing them to fund government schools with it. What most of us want is something that allows parents to use at least some of those already designated funds toward the education they see fit for their own children.
I encourage you to learn more about this before voting no. I understand your points, but I think you may be misguiding this ballot initiative.
So, vote yes so the government can collect even more taxes to give to private schools and then dictate what they can and can’t do? Why do I want to give these criminals MORE money?
Our government has no damn business running public schools. Now you want to let them get a foothold into private? I want them out of education completely!
Some may follow Karen Bracken on Substack. Here is Karen’s comment on the topic:
Nationwide school choice bill clears committee, moves to House floor - THIS IS NOT GOOD - PLEASE contact your US Representative and demand they vote No. Anything the government touches the government destroys. TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL and all of you constitutionally illiterate Americans need to read, research and understand our founding documents. The truth not the lies fed in our schools and by our government. The federal government has ZERO power or authority over education. Art. 1 Sec. 8 lists the 18 enumerated powers delegated to the federal government when the STATES created the federal government. Do you see any mention of education?? Do you see anything about marriage or health or environment listed? If it is not on the list the federal government has no constitutional power or authority and that goes for the Supreme Court as well. What choice in education do parents not have today? Every state in America already has “school choice.” What they now want is for the taxpayer to not only pay for public education but to now pay for private education too. If people understood the truth behind this movement they would not support it. The agenda is to eventually suck ALL school choices into the federal indoctrination system. Whatever they say school choice is today they can and will change it tomorrow. When they implemented Common Core globally one of the goals was to have ALL children under the same education system. That goal is still in effect today. There could be no outliers. What are the outliers? They are home educated children, religious school and private school children. So how do we get those students into the system? Oh I know.......lets offer a carrot to parents and call it school CHOICE……everyone wants choice, right??? Then we will force the taxpayer to pay for it and then eventually we can move the outliers under the same umbrella as the public/charter school students. One day in the future parents will be very sorry when they realize they got snookered again into yet another federal scheme (lie). Our failing education system needs to be fixed but school choice (taxpayer funded) is not the answer. At one time this country was 98% literate. Today we are at about 30%. What happened? What happened is that the federal government got involved and started dictating what schools will teach......oh not directly because that would violate their authority but they did it through funding and grants holding states hostage by the power of the purse. Want the money; you will do what we dictate. We need to get back to what made education great in this country many decades ago but that is not now and never was the goal of education because highly educated people threatens their power. Knowing how to read threatens their power. Dumbed down citizens are easier to deceive and control. WAKE UP PEOPLE this government NEVER does anything that will benefit you or your children
Karen’s substack (she posts a news aggregate every day):
https://karenbracken.substack.com/p/dr-casey-and-brother-calley-meanswho?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=668919&post_id=148872555&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ul8ox&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Hi Matt,
I certainly understand your concerns. I wish you had come to the meeting where the authors of this amendment presented. Kathy, my mom, is on the board of CEO (Commonwealth Educational Opportunities). There is a lot of misunderstanding around this amendment, which we are trying to education on. This amendment does not allow for school choice or for public money to be directed to private schools. Rather, it simply allows the legislature to consider it. Kentucky is one of only two (maybe four?) states in the nation that have something called the Blaine Amendment, a very old, anti-Catholic initiative that makes almost any form of school choice (other than pulling your kids out altogether) nearly impossible. Kentucky can’t even consider any form of legislation, including some things we would all probably agree on.
An amazing liberty law firm by the name of Institute for Justice, (www.ij.org) works for school choice reform around the country (vouchers for parents, tax tuition credits, etc. —things that will put the funding in the hands of the PARENTS so that our public money subsidizes the consumer rather than the supplier). They can’t help us in Kentucky because of the Blaine Amendment. Please note that we are already giving the government the money — money which is to be used to educate our children. Currently, we are also allowing them to fund government schools with it. What most of us want is something that allows parents to use at least some of those already designated funds toward the education they see fit for their own children.
I encourage you to learn more about this before voting no. I understand your points, but I think you may be misguiding this ballot initiative.
Thank you,
Dawn
"misjudging" not "misguiding." Sorry.