Disney tickets, PS5s, and big-screen TVs: Florida parents exploit DeSantis' school vouchers
Disney tickets, PS5s, and big-screen TVs: Florida parents exploit DeSantis' school vouchers
Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new
Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new
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This is according to plan.
As the Tampa Bay Times reported, Step Up for Student's new guide to approved expenses for recipients of PEP vouchers in the 2023-24 academic year authorizes the purchase of theme park tickets. Theme park tickets were previously a prohibited expense, but Step Up for Students' "reconsidered after hearing from parents about the potential benefits."
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Other approved expenses for all homeschooled students this academic year include swing sets, foosball tables, air hockey tables, skateboards, kayaks, standup paddleboards, dolls, and stuffed animals.
Insanity. And, of course, this is homeschooling parents all doing this.
Homeschoolers: the silent welfare queens
This was what was going through my head too. Isn't this welfare for DeSantis voters?
Does it help minorities?
No, then it's not welfare for desantis voters
Gotta create cannon fodder for the military industrial complex somehow.
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Why does the state need to fund dolls and stuffed animals or any of those other things for homeschoolers when teachers have to buy those things out of their own pocket if they even do? And those kids don't get to play with them after school. It's a two-tiered system and it is absolutely unfair.
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That doesn't justify what I was talking about at all. And even in that case, the child gets to play with the swing set after school, unlike kids at public schools.
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Again- kids at public schools can only play on those playgrounds at recess. These homeschoolers can play with their swingsets all the time. That is a two-tiered system.
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Yes but for each swingset purchsed using state funds for a homeschool kid provides for 1 student whereas each swingset purchased using state money can provide for multiple classrooms of students.
That homeschool swingset is now private property not useable by anyone else that helped pay for it.
People choose homeschooling, fine. Homeschool should never be funded by the public, unless public school is not available or the student cannot attend for legitimate reasons.
You choose to homeschool? Great, you homefund it, too.
So you're for teachers actually getting money to buy things for their classrooms now instead of using their own?
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They're not getting this voucher money, and the "parents rights" dopes would cry hard if they were buying this shit
Air hockey is a sport if Foosball is, I'm not disagreeing with you I just was wondering why you draw the line at air hockey
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