LTE: Parents, School District Wrong
- on 07.28.07
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I recently sent a Letter to the Editor of the Herald News. It was published on July 18th. I wanted to post it here as well.
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Parents, school district wrong I found your July 8 story about the enrollment officer in the Plainfield School District to be very one-sided in favor of the school district. I have a few questions that I suggest you ask this or any other school district doing the same thing. • Did the school district receive state aid payments for these children? If so, how much? • Did the school district receive federal payments for these children? If so, how much? • Is the school district refunding both the state aid and the federal money received as the parents pay them back? If not, why not? Wouldn’t that be double-dipping at the expense of the taxpayer involved? • Is the school district aiding the parents in attempting to get the property tax money paid to another district to offset this expense? If not, why not? The parents are not right in what they have done, but neither is the school district. They are double-dipping from the taxpayers and the parents. These parents would have been better off speaking out against this closed system that forces children to attend schools, good or bad, just because of where they live. Schools should not be funded directly; the children should be. In that way, the money would go to the school that the parents choose, solving this and many other problems. It is time to Fund the Child (www.FundTheChild.org) and stop funding the bureaucratic school districts. Lennie Jarratt |
This is similar to what took place in Beach Park schools this past school year. This is happening across Illinois. Parents are trying to do what is best for their child while schools punish them while receiving State benefits. These cases just highlight how broken this system is and why it must be changed.
