cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24039561

House Bill 1136, authored by Jake Teshka, argues that school districts with declining enrollments should not receive tax benefits while families send their children to other districts.

It would force public schools to become charter schools if more than 50% of students living in the district attend other schools.

Note that Indiana also has a school vouchers program to disincentiveize parents from sending their kids to a public school, making this an intentional feedback loop.

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This seems like the logic someone would use if they don’t have a good education. People send children to non-public schools to get a better education, due to not enough people in the public school + others paying for schooling they don’t use, they want to close the public school and force everyone to go elsewhere. Forget looking into why they don’t want to use the public school and address that. Let’s just make it worse for everyone.

    If half the students in your district are paying extra to go elsewhere, it’s because you needed to improve the public school you fucking morons.