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Strickland’s Equal Opportunity Discrimination has a face

April 18, 2007 |

The greatest disservice to Ohio’s students. Many of them who are minorities are being systematically discriminated against having “equal opportunity” to succeed. They instead will be forced to go to schools that don’t meet the mark.

If you notice, the ad says that enrollment is free. The reason for this is because it is a state funded school. It offers smaller class sizes so that the students get a more individualized attention and the school focuses on business and entrepreneurship.

The only reason for eliminating funding for this type of school is to placate the heavies in the teachers’ unions. Strickland wants to scrap the successes of these programs in order that he can maintain a strong political relationship with the unions. This is wrong and we need to stand up to him and the massively ineffective teachers.

Rather than cutting funding for these types of schools, I say shift the funding from the ineffective institutions and promote the expansion of similar schools in neighborhoods all across Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Akron, Canton, Ashtabula, and elsewhere about our state. I’d like to see the day when all children, regardless of economic status has a competitive school to attend. The taxpayers of this state are paying some of the highest tax rates and what are we getting for that money under the current status? Ineffective learning environments from substandard teachers.

I envision a day when the tax money to pay for a child’s education follows the child rather than apportioned geographically to an under-performing school where the child may or not be attending. If a child is enrolled in a private school, the money should go there. If a child is in a charter school, the money should go there.

Conservatives started the vouchers to help all students and their parents so that they have choice and opportunity to succeed in life. Instead Strickland’s voucher policy reminds me of the segregation policy once held in the South. Should we call this the new “Voucher-less Segregation” of Ohio?

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