Says she suffered racial discrimination in public schools
This week Vermont and all other states celebrate National School Choice Week. Restoring Our Faith Vermont would like to draw attention to the incredible benefits of school choice policies for Vermont communities, families, and individual students.
During the dreary days of the Covid pandemic, parents were awakened to what their children are being taught in public schools. They saw their young children being exposed to damaging ideologies like gender theory, critical race theory and sexually explicit materials.
“Parents are the catalyst for change. If we want to send our children to schools that we can trust to educate our children and reinforce our values, we must keep fighting for educational freedom especially in Vermont,” a Restoring Our Faith spokesperson said.
ROF offered the testimony of a prospective student at Sharon Academy in Sharon, VT as she describes the opportunities available to her thanks to Vermont’s remarkable town tuitioning policies.
“I think there’s a misconception that private schools are just for rich, privileged kids,” the eighth grader looking forward to attending town-tuitioned, private Sharon Academy said. Evans said that in the public school in her previous hometown, she was subjected to racially-related verbal abuse from students. Sometimes teachers and staff did not intervene. She would stay home, pretending to be sick, just to avoid the abuse, she said.
Current legislation would, if passed, limit Vermonters’ access to private school choice, including . These H.634 – An act relating to school closures and the designation of a public school to serve as the public school of the district. A bill restricting town tuition to private schools almost passed the Legislature last year, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring states to allow tuitioning when a local public school is not available.
Restoring Our Faith Vermont is an initiative of The Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing.
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Barron Trump should be the first trump EVER to serve in the U.S. military.
!!Squirrell!!
Seems a troll accessed the comments section.
When “everything is Trump’s fault”, that theme can work it’s way into any issue…
Yes, but don’t feed the maggots.
The MAGATs are being well fed n Federal Prison.
It is brilliant to play the victim card to promote the concept of school choice to the majority of the Vermont legislature as that is what appeals to the base instinct of democrats/progressives. Demonstrating that tuitioned school choice can be a remedy to bullying, whether based on race, gender or ethnicity tugs right at their heartstrings.
So, Rich. Are we to ignore the fact that School Choice decreases bullying, reduces Special Education labeling, lowers costs, and improves social and academic outcomes for students and their families?
School choice obviously has numerous merits, as you cited. However, only some will play into favor with the moonbat supermajority of the Vermont legislature, during a time when the issue is being actively opposed by lobbyists and union activists.
So, Rich, why throw the baby out with the bathwater. School Choice means *Choice*. If just one student, like this courageous Sharon middle-schooler, can exercise choice and enable her personal improvement, socially and academically, isn’t it worth it? When her friends and neighbors, who might have divergent but no less debilitating experiences in their school, be it a public or independent school, isn’t having the alternative to make another choice by far the better governance?
There are myriad peer reviewed studies showing that simply being able to choose the education programs, curricula one believes is in their best interest, improves both parental and student outcomes.
Consider the alternative of no choices. The public-school monopoly has been tightening its grip for decades. Drug use is epidemic. Suicide rates for 15–24-year-olds doubled just last year. Fewer than half of public-school students who graduate meet minimum grade level standards in any subject. And parental involvement in gender identification issues, vaccination concerns, not to mention revisionist history and Marxist theory, is frowned upon.
The public-school monopoly is destroying the traditional American family. And paradoxically, at the same time, when the above citations are presented to school administrators and teachers, they have the nerve to blame parents.
If parents are responsible, at least give them the opportunity to *be* responsible.
Don’t lose sight of the prize, VDC readers. Try to ignore the trolling subterfuge. It’s there to do just what it’s doing – distract you.
School Choice is the civil rights issue of the day. It is, in my humble opinion, the most important issue of our time. School Choice improves outcomes and lowers costs for everyone.
H.634 is the most corrupt and ill-advised legislation I’ve seen in decades.
On the other hand, the H.405 School Choice bill is the polar opposite to H.634, and the most important legislation for Vermonters to consider. H.405 will end the corrupt public-school monopoly and education special interest group’s stranglehold over Vermont’s legislators and taxpayers. For them, it’s all about the money – not our children. This explains why the H.405 bill has been collecting dust on the Education Committee’s shelves for the last year.
It’s time for the sponsors and supporters of H.405 to step up to the plate and stop cowering from their responsibility to do what’s right for all Vermonters, despite their personal political aspirations.
The sponsors and supporters of H405 are not cowering. They are not in the position to force a progressive committee chair to take up the bill.
Re: “sponsors and supporters of H405 are not cowering…”.
Really? They sure aren’t vociferously supporting H.405. Not a word from any of them here on VDC. No editorials on VT Public or VT Digger, or Seven Days.
One courageous VT representative, Kelly Pajala, wrote an editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer recently, expressing support for School Choice. But she never mentioned H.405.
No one has to ‘force’ a progressive committee chair to do anything. But they can at least mention the bill in public, explain why it’s worth supporting, and ask their constituents to contact their representatives to support H.405. And they can keep doing so every time we hear more about the dystopian H.634 bill that is being promoted, and every time Vermont’s $30,000 annual cost per student is exposed, not to mention the public-school monopoly’s dismal student performance.
H.405 was proposed a year ago. So far…. we hear the deafening sound of silence.
So, reneemmcg, what do you think of H.405? Why aren’t you supporting it, instead of making excuses for our legislators?
Kudos to Chloe! I trust that the supposed “adults in the room” behaved respectively and attentively as she addressed them, though both on the current federal level as well as throughout the states, there appears to be a pervasive pattern for lawmakers to totally disregard what most constituents want and proceed to do whatever they alone want. Hence, this Constitutional Republic is no longer functioning as such.
Resist, Rebel, and Revolt.
Vermonts public schools are failing its students. Some of the highest cost per pupil, with some of the lowest test scores. Doesn’t choice create better “customer” satisfaction? SO what is the VT Leg afraid of? I mean I know they get lots of their support from the VT teachers union, but lets, let the money follow the student and let the student and parents decide what is best for them and then……let the chips fall where they may.