Ryan Jayne’s Sept. 5 column provided so much valuable information on the subject of “Ending School Voucher Funding”. I personally appreciate his contribution to a subject that needs to garner more awareness and scrutiny. This increasing allocation of education dollars to a voucher system for private and religious schools must be halted. Our taxes are supposed to go toward supporting public education, not tax exempt private and religious schools. How are we as a society going to elevate the less advantaged urban and rural districts if we redistribute these dollars, thereby decreasing the monies previously used to improve the public school systems? This voucher system allows such a negligible percentage of disadvantaged students the opportunity for a better environment and opportunity for learning that this cannot be the prevailing rationale for this system.
- Mary Copeland, Centerville