Have we had enough GOVERNMENT intrusion in and control of our lives in this last year?
Did Kansans not show up and elect people to the legislature who campaigned on reducing the government’s stranglehold on our lives?
Have Kansas parents not shown up numerous times to demand schools be fully open?
Well, thus far, the legislature has managed to EXTEND the “state of emergency.” How many days did it take for newly elected legislators to walk back their campaign rhetoric and VOTE to continue the infringements of our individual rights? “Just two more months” of your life. No problem! Right?
Instead … legislators have been busy rushing hearings on bills to GROW GOVERNMENT.
Instead of – first and foremost – doing everything they could to end the attack on our lives and livelihoods.
Instead of – first and foremost – doing everything they could to fulfill their oath to uphold the Constitution, protecting and defending our individual liberties.
Instead … legislators FIRST ACTED to tell the people they could continue on in the same “shut down” “emergency” mode, while ….
Instead … legislators have been busy AS USUAL bringing all their lobbyist bills to continue GROWING GOVERNMENT, “managing” our little lives.
The legislature has done nothing to “fix” the schools it funds – apparently the schools at which kids are “failing.”
Parents and kids are TIRED of the “choices” many have been forced to make.
– Remote / Hybrid / In-person
– All the on-line time
– Masks / screening protocols
– Quarantining
– Contact tracing invasion of privacy
– Reduced or eliminated activities
– Restrictions on families being able to enter schools and attend activities
So, instead of fixing their own public school mess, legislators are working hard to allow GOVERNMENT funding to be moved from public schools (along with the strings – SHACKLES – that GOVERNMENT monies have afforded the “failing” public schools) to homeschools and private schools.
The legislators have done such a terrific job with public schools that they fund, they want to see what they can do with their GOVERNMENT money “attached to/following” a child.
“Money following the child” = the GOVERNMENT following the child.
“Money following the child” = the GOVERNMENT’s DIRECT ATTACHMENT to your child.
“Money following the child” = the GOVERNMENT directly ENJOINED to your child.
Every kid that is “eligible:”
– “Gets” his very own GOVERNMENT account, set up and monitored by the GOVERNMENT
– “Gets” his account funded by the GOVERNMENT
o Welfare check?
o Why not have a “base” state housing allowance for EVERYONE?
o Why not a “living wage” for all?
– “Gets” a “base” government education allowance to “choose” where he “gets” his government education.
– “Gets” to have reports regarding his ESA “bank” account prepared for state agencies.
“Money following the child” = the GOVERNMENT’s DIRECT ATTACHMENT to your child.
Even non-“eligible” kids in nonpublic schools accepting “eligible” kids “gets” the same GOVERNMENT education. With the school having to comply with GOVERNMENT guidelines, programming, reporting,, and oversight, they will correspondingly be included. Your “non-eligible” child will be nonetheless entangled in the same strings. Sorry, parents. Some of you who made the TRUE CHOICE and financial sacrifice to send your child to a privately funded nonpublic school will just have to understand.
AND, schools “win” too!
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” access to GOVERNMENT monies
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to comply with GOVERNMENT guidelines
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to meet GOVERNMENT education qualifications
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” access to special program monies
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to report to the GOVERNMENT
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to be overseen by GOVERNMENT
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to be audited by the GOVERNMENT
– Homeschoolers and nonpublic schools “get” to defend themselves against any ways they don’t comply with GOVERNMENT directives
This bill is NOT free market. It POISONS the market. The “coupon”/account with the GOVERNMENT money for the child becomes the NEW NORMAL – permanent government education. The GOVERNMENT “coupon”/account offers vast powers of control over the entire education system. It COMPROMISES homeschools and private schools, and UNDERCUTS public schools.
This bill brings more kids under ONE-TO-ONE GOVERNMENT monitoring and control.
This is confirmed by legislators stating, we have to give kids and option, “even if it has strings.”
Two see just how many STRINGS and “freedom” the legislature is rushing to “give” you, look at this 20-PAGE! “school choice” bill (HB2119). hb2119_00_0000.pdf (kslegislature.org) It’s being heard today in the House K-12 Education Budget committee meeting at 3:30pm.
20 PAGES of “FREEDOM”!!!! Not!
We’ve also conveniently started parsing the details of HB2119. Go here to see where the legislature you worked hard to elect is focusing its energy. You know … rather than ending things like “states of emergency.”
Kansans Against Common Core 