No. I jut want my tax dollars to support my kids education directly. Let me spend my tax money that goes to public school systems to a school of my choice. simple.
We all agree that every kid is different or unique, so let me tailor my kids education to what suits them best. I know my kids better than any teacher. My complaint started with the fact that if I send my kids to a private school, I have to pay for that above and beyond my tax dollars going to a school system I do not wish to support. Freedom of choice is a simple idea and would do our education system a great service.

Walker wants nothing more than to DESTROY public education and he will do anything to accomplish that goal. It is that simple. He must have had a very bad experience with getting his homework done on time when he was in school. Was likely before he discovered cheating....

@onelife- So are you saying that you'd like the state to pay you to home school, hence, educate, your own children?

Public schools teach to the lowest common denominator. I want my tax dollars back and I will spend them on the school of my choice. That is my point. Public schools are a doing a lousy job of preparing kids for the future. I am not endorsing parochial schools as the only way. How about home schooling. There are many resources available to parents online to home school and have a very high success rate.
My point is more to the fact that the cost per student per year in public schools is not getting the returns they should be getting. Graduation rates in many urban areas are dismal.

Voucher schools get the breaks, at the cost of other taxpayers in different public school districts. More take the money from the pubic schools to promote a political agenda, not help kids. http://host.madison.com/08b27d8e-6b26-11...

As a private citizen, I am taking a survey to see if I am the only one that is concerned about the direction of our district. Please fill out this survey and pass it onto other residents. Join me at the school board meeting on February 12th to discuss the results. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L3L7S98

so Walker is politicizing the education of children? Hmm I guess that works both ways, the unions have been doing that or decades. Hypocrites.

Look into who is invested in private schools. I bet you will find many of Walker's backers. This is a brazen attempt by Walker and his rich cronies to steer taxpayer money away from the public and into their pockets.

analertcitizen WELL SAID. School choice includes voucher programs, in which the government helps pay for tuition at private schools, Now who really pays The tax payer does so you will be double dipped as you already pay school taxes. LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON THIS ONE Give us the choice to make he decisions that pertain to our children and where our money goes. Our Public schools are doing quite well and Walker has no business making decisions on Education as he was kicked to the curb in College. Press Walker to enlighten us and tell us where the Jobs are. He has priorities for this State and voucher programs is not one of them...

Macdaddy, you are absolutely right, I don't know what is best for anyones kids which is why I am not about to tell them what to do with them, let them decide. Just as nobody else knows what is best for me and my family, choice is good I thought, guess only on certain issues. Hypocrisy spells it out nicely.

All of you need to slow down a little and read.

It says it would give people the choice of where they want their funds being used. Shouldn't you be given a choice?

Ironic to me is that the abortion issue, the religious right says women should have no choice, but when it comes to where their tax dollars go towards educating their own children then they want choice and vice versa for the other side of the argument.

Both sides very hypocritical.

But in the end, I think you should have the right to support the school where your kids attend and not have to be pay twice for the same education.

I HATE being repetitive but I said this on the other thread. This is all about eliminating any and all teachers unions and cutting their salary and benefit packages as LOW as possible, period. Scott Walker is Anti-education, Anti-teacher, these are facts that are bore from his positions.
School choice is available for all families in Wisconsin. This is simply a ploy to take public ed dollars away from the evil Union teachers. Funny how conservatives bark about entitlements all day long, whats this? Not to mention this program only includes 16% of the students in Milwaukee? Instead of focusing on fixing the problems in the schools the answer is to ship a small percentage of the students to the suburbs? What about the other 84%? This is simply laziness by local and state officials who are not brave enough to try and solve problems. All we hear from Republicans is cut, cut , cut less money, stop throwing money at these problems. How about letting the professionals try to fix this? People that are trained to educate, instead we have bitter local businessman (Bill S) on school boards with political agendas doing all they can to block progress, cut funding, and tell teachers to do more with less. Is that the answer? All that does is make tea party weasels excited, oh sorry the "Grandsons of Liberty"

""I choose not to fund the failing public schools and want my money to go to a private school where God is present and the kids get a much better education.""

Really? Failing? Failing American families. In one breath conservatives want to blame the schools for failing, but in poor areas its a failure of the family and not enough God.
I suggest you look at statistics, your kids will get a far better education in a public school, and it might just prepare them for life situations and diversity just a little it better. I have news for you not everyone looks like you, acts like you, lives like you. Shelter your child in a religious school and you are really limiting them.
When I see weirdo's talking of indoctrination , I wonder at what age and where does this wide spread mythical indoctrination exist? In Janesville? Most teachers are liberals, is it happening here? Milton? Where? No myths and stories please.

If you are a believer in God, as I am, you would know that God was in that public school right along side those teachers in Netown who shielded and protected those children from a gunman. What makes you religious right people think that only private church operated schools have believers in them? Get over yourselves.

What on Earth are you talking about?? Indoctrination? Look no further than private schools for that. No accountability, no registered teachers, and in many of them RELIGION.. You don't want indoctrination unless its indoctrinating kids toward your flawed ideology. Why not just be honest?

I don't approve of my tax dollars being used to indoctrinate students, instead of educating them.

Where is the separation of church and state?

School voucher entitlements are currently $6,442 per student. I don't want my tax money going to fund somebody else's religious choice. I also doubt that very many poor or average families can afford tuition at private schools even with the free $6,442 of tax payers money. I suspect that this is will be a nice kick back to the wealthy folk already sending their kids to private schools.

if the people who make all the comments about private schools are representative of what their god teachs, I wish they would post their religion so I know which ones to either study or avoid.

So God is only present in private schools? Here I thought he was omnipresent. Do you have to pay extra for God's presence everywhere?

Charter schools? I don't have a problem with that. It's for church type schools I'd expect. So, objection to a Muslim one? Anyways, the whole idea is stupid. If you want your religion to be supported by my tax dollars, ummm...you are in the wrong. Call it what you want, you are violating the Constitution.

I mean "Helge". Bad vision.

@marge-love it.

walker only wants to distroy public schools
If some one wants their children to go to a private school the cost is yours along

Well onrlife I DO NOT want my taxes used to fund any church--what makes you so special?

The key: "Without elaborating."
Unexplained. Undetailed. Not fleshed out. Unproven success. Known to move money away from public schools.

Walker again being driven by the booster, Amway family playbook.

They're called public schools for a reason.

Mayor Barrett is worried about losing money for public schools. What a joke. Public schools have been getting too much money for to long. Property taxes help fund local schools, which I pay, yet I still have to pay my kids tuition at a private school.

Lets make it like a right to work state. I choose not to fund the failing public schools and want my money to go to a private school where God is present and the kids get a much better education.

Here we go again......