This afternoon the Brookings School District posted their agenda for the Monday School Board meeting, which includes this item on the agenda indicating they will be voting on resolution to register their objection to “the proposed school voucher program.”
While the School Board has not indicated the language of their resolution at this time, we might have an indication as to the form the resolution will take, as the Associated School Boards of South Dakota organization has provided sample language for their member school boards to consider:
The Brookings School Board is scheduled to meet on Monday at 5:15pm at Dakota Prairie Elementary School in Brookings.
Well of course they are. They are elected to oversee “only” public school students.
Incorrect. Numerous Home School students utilize Public Schools for Extra-Cirricular actives, CTE, library usage, and curriculum support.
Tenhaken probably thinks this issue is irrelevant.
Yup, but the defund public schools crowd doesn’t care about extra-curricular, art/music/cte classes, libraries, or sped support unless it is specific to their child, at which point they pull a 180 demanding their kid get all of those public resources.
You know what might be the most infuriating part of this voucher scam? Nearly every community in the state has been begging for help for Daycare and early childcare. Then what does Noem and a few tone-deaf lunkheads do? Try to thro money at homeschoolers that don’t want or need it.
According to No-em day care is not the business of government
And neither is the funding of different types of education based on individual choices.
I’m not sure about that: the government has taken on the financial responsibility of public education, and every kid that goes to private school is one less the taxpayers have to pay to educate.
Babysitting, on the other hand, has never been taken on as something the government should be responsible for.
Babysitting used to be called babysitting, until some people thought “if we call it early childhood education maybe we can get the government to pay for it.”
Some of us aren’t buying; it’s not education, it’s babysitting. .
The government has “taken” anything. Here is the verbiage. Article 8-1. “A uniform system of free PUBLIC schools.” It goes on to say “equally open to all.” It doesn’t say anything about Private Schools, It doesn’t say anything about needing a Pastor to sign off on your admission, it doesn’t say anything about discriminating against those with special needs or English language difficulties and denying them attendance a Private School.
yes the government did take on the responsibility of educating the masses, by providing free public education for people who can’t afford private education.
The government has not taken on the responsibility of providing babysitters for people who cannot afford them, other than orphanages and foster care, to take care of children whose parents can’t.
But it is not surprising that some people now think the government’s promise of free education should include babysitting.
Not true, public schools are still on the hook for services for sped students in private schools lacking the resources to support them (which is nearly all of them in SD).
How bout my Government Fire Department and Government Ambulance service? I am a SD Certified Wildland Firefighter, Certified Structural Fire Fighter, and EMT-B. In the 35 years of paying these levies, the Fire Department and Ambulance Service has never been on my property nor have I needed assistance from either entity. If I promise to never use them shouldn’t my Government Fire and Government Ambulance money follow me. I want Emergency Service Choice.
isn’t there a bill for that?
I also don’t use my public library and buy my own books. I’d like a voucher to refund part of that money. Wait, if I don’t choose to use the public library that is my choice and I will need to pay for my own books completely with my own money?
It is NOT the business of the state to take care of your kids. The Russians did that very well.
Isn’t it remarkable that ‘local control’ advocates now want $$$ from the state coffers.
Look, the problem is that the public schools have gone off the rails.
1/3 of incoming freshmen at our state universities require remedial course work. Their high school diplomas were fraudulent.
High school graduates can’t even tell you who won the Civil War, much less understand what it was about.
Posts in local facebook groups reveal that nobody
speaks English anymore, as in “I could of told you I seen her laying on the couch talking about preborn babies.” (My autocorrect had a conniption as I typed that.)
They aren’t being taught maths, English, or history, so what are they being taught?
That gender is a social construct, and if your mother has a hysterectomy or a mastectomy, she won’t be a woman anymore, and you’ll have to start calling her Dad?
No wonder parents want to exfiltrate their kids.
If the public schools want to hang onto their students, they’re going to have to clean up their act.
Plenty of home schoolers are being taught the moon landings never happened, all vaccines are bad, the earth is flat and humans lived along side of Dinosaurs.
Proof please.
Socially stunted too sadly.
You speak in generalizations that aren’t happening. What you fail to recognize is that South Dakota LEADS the nation in the ACT acting in states where over 40 percent of the students take the test. The ACT is accepted by most high performing colleges. Voucher states scores aren’t even close to our ACT scores. Proponents for vouchers look at scores from one test, the SBAC, only one of our standardized tests. The same test they don’t want their kids taking. It is not an easy test, and it is only one predictor for college success. Not all of our kids are going to college. Our public school tracks the majority of our kids heading into college and the majority of them do not require any remedial freshman classes with a many going to School Of Mines. In my experience as a Soldier in the South Dakota Guard, the patriotic kids next to me in Iraq, at Missouri River Floods, and standing at Road Blocks in Keystone protecting Noem and Trump were public school kids who were taught a love of country and service in Public Schools. I have never served with 1 home school kid and most recruiters weren’t even allowed to go in our Private schools.
Remedial courses are not a failure of the entire public education system but a reflection of the diverse needs and backgrounds of students. Many factors contribute to this, including socioeconomic conditions and individual learning challenges.
There are countless success stories within the public school system, with many students excelling and achieving great things. Public schools provide opportunities for students from all walks of life.
Rather than abandoning public education, we should focus on supporting and improving it. This includes investing in teacher training, curriculum development, and providing resources to help students succeed.
Public education ensures that all students, regardless of their background, have access to education. Vouchers for private and home schools may not address the underlying issues and could lead to greater inequality.
By working together to support and enhance public education, we can help all students reach their full potential.
Which school in South Dakota is teaching these things? Contact their administration and school board to address this issue. Personally, I haven’t seen any evidence of this happening in South Dakota public schools.
This was meant to be a reply to Anonymous January 12, 2025 at 7:11 am comment.
Taxpayer money to fund private businesses. Education: great idea. Summit Pipeline: lets Sherman’s March to sea’em.
Have you heard of the horseshoe theory? When someone goes so far right or left they actually have more in common with the other side than they do with the majority of their own party. This is that. Liberals are pros at throwing money at something thinking it will make a difference without ever fixing the root cause of the problem. And that is exactly what is happening here.
Taxpayer money to fund private businesses. Education: great idea. Summit Pipeline: lets Sherman’s March to sea’em.
Have you heard of the horseshoe theory? When someone goes so far right or left they actually have more in common with the other side than they do with the majority of their own party. This is that. Liberals are pros at throwing money at something thinking it will make a difference without ever fixing the root cause of the problem. And that is exactly what is happening here.