North Carolina Governor Declares A State of Emergency As Legislature About to Pass School Choice Bill.
According to 2022 study bt the Organization of Economic Cooperation Nort Carolina ranks 33 of all U.S. in a multi-faceted review. So, there is much room for improvement. With such poor results, the deschoolers (term for homeschooled in North Carolina) have increased substantially. Between 2014 to 2018 there was a 27% increase. There were a total of 90,688 deschooled pupils in 2019. Now in 2023, one in every ten pupils is homeschooled. Over the past twenty years there has been a healthy increase incharter and magnet schools as well. But Governor Roy Cooper, who receives healthy amounts of donations from teacher’s unions knows on which side his bread is buttered.
Cooper , a politician, unbelievably even urged to
Keep politicians out of the classroom, textbooks and lesson plans
Here is his “Emergency Order”
https//governor.nc.gov/public-education-crisis
N.C. Governor is being tone-deaf to parents who want a say on what their children learn.
In 2021 just north of North Carolina parents disagreed with one of Cooper’s major points. It cost the Democrats the governorship.
“Let education experts make curriculum decisions on what students learn.”
June 2021
Parents Explain How Loudoun County Became Ground Zero in the Culture Wars
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/parents-explain-how-loudoun-county-became-ground-zero-in-the-culture-wars/
Two years later:
https://www.tnonline.com/20220425/opinion-loudoun-county-is-ground-zero-in-parental-rights-movement/
New Poll Finds Majority of Parents & Voters Favor Open School Enrollment, Elimination of Attendance Boundaries
The Virginia poll shows a majority believe that students should be able to attend any public school regardless of proximity to their residence
Virginia has been one of the 30 states with no “school choice” options. You might as well say that Virginia is one of over half of the states where the teacher’s union have a tight grip.
Loudon County has been ground zero in the movement that believes parents have a right to know the content and the values being taught. Now where they want to have a say about the “boundaries” in essence, Loudon and Virginians believe in reforming the states public schools. This compares greatly with those parents who are realists and know that public schools are resistant to any and all reforms. The politicians, school boards, principals and many teachers are two-year-olds. Watching them is a full time job. In the end, you end up like all the other school reformers, so tired that you give up.
The Real Culture War Battlefield is School Choice.
Loudon County parents have failed to understand that competition can drive better education. Whether it’s charter schools, private schools, county magnet schools, and home schools, your taxes should follow your children.
As of today, only 21 out of 51 states have school choice ,that’s less than 50%. Based on
I did my homework to see if there could be a relationship between education ranking with multiple criteria and whether the state had school choice. The Organization for Economic Cooperation 2022 study https://www.intelligent.com/the-best-and-worst-states-for-education/ showed that the majority of the lowest performing state education systems 17 out of 25 had no school choice laws whatsoever. The eight that were in the bottom 25 that had passed school choice laws were: S. Carolins ranked 49, Louisiana ranked 48, West Virginia ranked 44, Arizona ranked 38, North Carolina ranked 33, Maine ranked 1, Indiana ranked 29 and Arkansas ranked 27.
Reviewing what has been going on in Alabama these past years regarding school choice, I believe sheds light on the major stumbling blocks. First, poor rural people cannot transport or afford to transport their children to an alternative school great distances from their homes. While legally these children have access, but in reality, they really don’t. Currently, the biggest opposition to school choice legislation in Alabama are the homeschoolers. And, here they have my heart. They do not want to teach to the test. By getting a tax credit, the lord ( the State) giveth, but the price is your kids are morons. Read the article about this:
https://www.fox10tv.com/2022/02/15/alabama-school-choice-bill-runs-into-surprising-opposition-homeschool-parents/
Florida is Not What You Think.
I live in Southwest Gulf Coast Florida. Florida has school choice, but parents who move here soon find that demand for alternative schools is greater than supply. It is no different in the neighboring counties as well. For the majority, most who must work, you home school or enroll your children in low-performing public schools.
Florida is also one of those states where you see great discrepancies in educational outcomes based on the social economic status of the neighborhood or county. Next door to me is DeSoto County, a rural county like so many others in Florida with poverty rates way higher than the national average.
Our governor, now on a victory tour is lauding his success by quoting a new U.S. News and World Report that has Florida fourth graders doing well in reading and math. I’ve looked into what happens by 8th grade and 12th grade here. Its not a pretty picture. We are at the point in America where government should get out of the learning and education field and look at its decades of poor decisions.