Education Matters US

State Sen. Meeks is encouraging CPS students to skip school the first day and attempt to register at New Trier and other so called elite schools. This is a gimic that highlights the inequity in our current school funding model of funding bureaucratic districts leaving many children behind. Unfortunately, Sen. Meeks is missing the boat because he only wants to raise everyone taxes instead of really fixing the problem.

State Sen. James Meeks of Chicago’s South Side got the conversation going recently when he urged Chicago students to skip class on Sept. 2, the first day of school in the city, and try to enroll instead at Winnetka’s New Trier High School. Meeks hopes the protest will shine a light on what he considers to be an unfair school funding system in Illinois, one that favors rich areas over poor ones. The New Trier district, with two high school campuses, spends about $17,000 a year on each of its students, while Chicago Public Schools, a unit district that includes both elementary and high schools, spends about $10,000.

This is just a stunt because New Trier and every other school district won’t allow this to happen. The district model perpetuates the inequtiy which allow people like Meeks and the teachers unions to continually lobby for more taxpayer money. The trend of ever increasing taxes will never end as long as we allow the bureaucrats to decide where our children attend school. The only solution is to Fund the Child instead of funding public government school bureaucracies. Money is not the answer as I have explained many times before. Watch the video I posted early that shows the idiocy of the arguments against a system that allows parents to choose. There are also many articles I have posted at Fund the Child.