Sears: We’re ‘Challenging’ Politicians Who Deny Poor Kids School Choice and Send Their Kids to Priva

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Sears: We’re ‘Challenging’ Politicians Who Deny Poor Kids School Choice and Send Their Kids to Private School

IAN HANCHETT  |  28 Jan 2022

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Fox Business Tonight,” Virginia Lt. Gov Winsome Sears (R) discussed the push for school choice in Virginia and said they are taking on politicians who can send their kids to private school, but “block poor parents” from doing so and make zip codes into “the red line on the kind of education you are going to get.” Sears also stated, there’s “a real awakening happening” in immigrant, Black, and Hispanic communities embracing conservative ideas.

Sears stated, “[W]e are challenging those politicians who, by the way, they have the ability to send their children — because they have the resources — to send their children to private schools. Why would you stand in the doorway and block poor parents who want their children to make school choices? Why would you stand in their way and say no, you must go to this school and this school only? For me, that’s the new red line. Your zip code, once again, is the red line on the kind of education you are going to get.”  .  .  .

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/28/sears-were-challenging-politicians-who-deny-poor-kids-school-choice-and-send-their-kids-to-private-school/


HEAR HEAR !!! This has been a passion of mine for a very long time.  Even within the public school system itself, there is redlining.  Take Cobb County school system here in Georgia for example.  In East Cobb, you will find some of the finest schools in the State.  But in South Cobb, you will find some of the worst.  Both are part of the same school system.   But parents in South Cobb are prohibited from sending their kids to East Cobb schools.

If vouchers were extended to public schools with tuition being set by local school principals and administrators, then parents would have a real choice on their children's education.  Public school funds are set aside for the benefit of the student, not the school.  And those funds should accompany the student to whatever school his/her parents select.