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.