Oregon Catalyst:
From Senate Republican Caucus
SALEM, Ore. – Today Senate Republicans attempted to force a vote on Senate Bill 659, a bill that would allow parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state—no matter where they live.
From 2011 to 2019, Oregon students were allowed to choose a school with programs and opportunities that best fit their needs and goals. The open enrollment program sunset in 2019 and along with it, educational opportunity for the next generation of young Oregonians. Only students who can prove “hardship” are eligible to transfer outside of their resident districts. The legal definition of “hardship” does not include consideration of students’ learning progress at their current school.
“The current system is inflexible and doesn’t serve our children’s needs,” said Senator Dennis Linthicum (R-Klamath Falls), who introduced the legislation. “Too many students are being denied educational opportunities because of this outdated way of educating our kids.” more
This ought to go over with the teacher’s unions like a turd in a punch bowl
Fiscal discipline must be established over education funds.
From one government district to a choice from another? That’s a partial solution that might work for some families depending on what other districts offer. MUCH BETTER: Transfer to ANY accredited school, government or independently run.
Not sure what to think of this. If you live in a decent school district with 2/3rds of insanely high property taxes going to the schools (such is where I live currently), the existing students won’t leave (no hardships) and more students will come from farther away places diluting my child’s education and raising my insanely high taxes. I’m speaking in general terms, as I don’t live in Oregon..
The very first problem is the fact that it’s a public school.
A question I posed when hauled into the principal’s office by my mother for having a record number of absences: Since when did submitting to one’s self to indoctrination become the price of exercising one’s right to public education?
My brother and I rarely showed up except to take tests from about seventh grade on. My mom questioned the fact that the grades we got on report cards were not consistent with the number of absences they provided her with on the same report cards. The school told my mother that since we were getting among the highest grades on tests they isn’t know what could be done about it.