Fight Brews over Nevada’s School Choice Experiment
A North Carolina mom said her son Keenan was bullied at his public school and his administrators explained they couldn’t do anything about it. Keenan’s teachers seemed more interested in money than actually teaching their students, worrying that if he went to another school theirs would lose his tuition revenue.
“I’m totally disappointed when it comes to the school district. I really am, and I’m glad he’s my last child that will have to experience this school. It’s just sad. They are really failing the children, they really are,” Keenan’s mom, Kena Cooper, told me.
When he received a voucher scholarship, allowing her to send him to a private school, Kena was grateful. Keenan went to a lock-in with his new classmates before the school year started, and he was excited to start school with his new friends. His mom was excited, too.
“‘He said to me last night, he said, ‘Ma, I didn’t think they were going to like me. I didn’t think the kids was going to like me. But Mom, they like me,’” Cooper said. “I was like, ‘Yeah, they like you.’ He said, ‘Yeah, they like me, and they’re nice to me, and I can’t wait to go to school.’”
A changing math curriculum was making school especially difficult for Robin Lamp’s two daughters in Georgia. Robin, a single mom, works several jobs to stay off government benefits, and didn’t know she had education options. When she learned about the state’s tax-credit scholarship program, she signed her daughters up. They’re excelling at their new private school.
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