Great Ways to Support School Choice
- rstinson10
- Jan 18
- 5 min read
Updated: Mar 26
School choice has been around for a long time. We are fortunate to live in a country where we have the choice to homeschool or send our kids to a private or public school. However, more recently, homeschooling and private schooling have be come more popular and have gotten the attention of legislators. There has been an increase of laws restricting homeschooling, redirecting tax dollars and creating a huge legal mess, which parents have to navigate through.
The School Choice community needs your help!
We must be diligent in protecting the freedom of school choice by voting against voucher laws and other legislation harming our communities. Below are a list of true ways to protect your freedoms and make private school and homeschooling options more accessible to families.
Charitable Giving
Donate to the scholarship funds of private schools.
Join or donate to HSLDA. HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense Association) is a homeschool advocacy group. They provide grants to homeschoolers. Visit their website to donate or apply for a grant. https://hslda.org
Click to see our article about why HSLDA is an important organization in the homeschool community here
See our article about supporting homeschooling here.
Decrease Funding Public Schools
Spending in public schools is excessive and bloated. Public school should be reduced to offering the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic, with (a little US civics and history. Their budgets should reflect that public schools are educating students with the basics that they need to succeed as an adult, without the high overheads of administration. According to Census Beaureau, the average cost per pupal per year is $15,633. The school system is a known broken system set up to fail, given the amount of the money that is being wasted. Voting to decrease school funding will necessitate the public schools to focus on the basics and to do those well, eliminating all the nonesense programs (DEI, common core, etc).
Decrease Taxes
Our taxes are already excessive and we need to lower the cost of living, so that famalies can make the best choices, rather than forced ones. Imagine this: what if you only paid for police, fire, and road maintenance and the rest of government programs had a crowdfunding page. Everyone would have the funds to educate their children as they see fit and live freely. So, how can this happen? We can lobby for lower taxes and decrease government budgets. Many American taxpayers are pleased to hear what DOGE is doing to cut bloated Federal budgets. However, there are government budgets we should be cutting at a local level as well. They show up often during elections and we have the opportunity to vote against more taxation.
And by reducing government budgets, we will also reduce the amount of control that government beauracrats can exert over our freedoms:
Support companies that Support the School Choice Movement and Homeschooling
Small businesses like art schools, homeschool micro-schools, tutors, STEM programs, etc. are all important businesses in our community. They help provide enrichment and education programs to our community, but also benefit homeschooling and the school choice movement.
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Join the fight against dangerous School Choice laws.
The school choice community needs your help to stop these laws, including voucher programs. I wish we could be informed voters who simply show up at the polls during an election after researching ballot initiatives. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We must all be proactive and diligent in protecting school choice (education freedom).
Our legal representatives often do not give us as option to vote on many important laws, like school choice bills. Instead, they write and vote on sometimes tyrannical laws in a congressional setting behind closed doors or with limited exposure to the public. This makes it so instead of just showing up to vote a few times a year at the polls, American citizens have to contact our representatives, attend congressional hearings and have elaborate social media activist campaigns in order to protect our freedoms. We have to do this, as our freedom is at stake.
Join the fight. Some bills are good bills we hope to pass and some are dangerous. If your state has a school choice bill out, there is likely homeschool groups organizing practical ways to get involved.
Vote NO on School Choice Voucher Laws
We already have school choice. You can go ot private school, go to public school or homeschool. Voucher laws are big government bureaucracy disguised as “help” and do not help our community. Vote NO on any voucher laws. Do not let them happen in your state!
Click for more information about how school choice vouches harm our community here.
School choice voucher problems in the news.
School choice voucher laws open the possibility of more homeschool government regulation and overreach. See link here.
Voucher Costs Are Out of Control: It is costing states large sums of money. See here
It costs Arizona $332M to pay for vouchers subsidizing private school tuition, homeschooling. See link here
Voucher programs are creating state budget and tax problems. “During the 2024 - 2025 school year, the West Virginia voucher program is expected to funnel $21.6 million away from the state’s public schools–enough to pay the salaries for 301 professional teachers and 63 school service workers. As a result of the voucher and other declines in enrollment, multiple school districts are already warning residents that they need to impose property tax increases in order to continue to pay current teachers’ salaries.”
Florida school voucher payments are late going to private schools. See link here
Judge hears arguments in case alleging Utah’s ‘school choice’ program is unconstitutional. See link here
Church sues Maine for requiring schools to adhere to LGBT policy to be eligible for tuition program. See link here
Bureaucracies never achieve an acceptable level of competency in providing even simple services, whether it is the DMV, Medicare, or, in this case, the Hope Scholarship school voucher program. In fact, failing is part of the plan of government control, since there’s always a larger bureaucratic solution that is offered which grows the power of the regulatory state to a government-created problem. Second, we see how the legal controls, influenced by 3rd parties, often work to undermine a freedom. In this case, the so-called “Experts” (who usually oppose homeschooling), interfering in the rights of parents to homeschool with misleading claims of fraud, which they use to buttress their calls to curtail the fundamental right to homeschool. See link here
"Loophole allows Minnesota charter schools to award $132 million in contracts without following state anti-corruption rules". See link here
Vouchers come with strings attached.
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