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DEL.ICIO.USRadio ads target two Republican senators for school voucher vote
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Speaking of religious conservatives reasserting their clout.
The Georgia Christian Alliance launched radio ads this morning in Gainesville and Augusta, in an attempt to pressure two Republicans to vote a school voucher bill out of a Senate committee this week.
Listen here to the ad aimed at Bill Jackson (R-Appling). And here to the ad aimed at Jim Butterworth (R-Cornelia.
The legislation is S.B. 90, which state Sen. Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) is using as a cornerstone for his campaign for lieutenant governor. The voucher bill is scheduled for a vote by the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.
The bill would allow parents to shift their children to the public school of their choice, with the receiving school having the authority to refuse, or to any private school.
Say both radio ads:
“I’m Jason Fields. I want the best education for my children, and one that does not conflict with our family’s values. The Georgia Legislature’s now considering Senate Bill 90, that will give parents like us vouchers to send our children to the school of our choice.”
The narrator is the son of Sadie Fields, chairman of the Georgia Christian Alliance. He has three sons, ages 8, 6 and 5.
Said Sadie Fields:
“We’re just trying to encourage them to pass the vote out of committee and see what happens on the floor.”
Comments
By Jeff
February 23, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this
As I’ve told Sen. Johnson himself, there is simply no way I can support this bill because of the regulations it places on private schools.
I like what it does with public schools, and could support the bill if the private school section was removed.
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
February 23, 2009 12:17 PM | Link to this
Conservatives: Making their values known to public officials since the Salem Witch Trials.
By Copyleft
February 23, 2009 3:00 PM | Link to this
If you want any public money for your school, it doesn’t get to be “private” any more.
By Jeff
February 23, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this
Copyleft:
Ah, but if the Department of Education was eliminated and parents allowed totally free choice on how to educate their own kids, we wouldn’t have these issues to begin with…
By JD
February 23, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this
Honestly, after being a lifelong educator and former school principal…the entire Voucher idea is completely idiotic.
Realistically, nobody is going to be sending their children to a different school. This bill will just add another layer of bureaucracy for Georgians to deal with every year.
Furthermore, the costs of tuition at private schools is going to rise correspondingly. Vouchers will not make private school more affordable for anybody…it will just give the private schools a couple thousand dollars in subsidized funding. It will definitely allow these private schools to invest more into their programs and grow…but costs will remain the same. Tuition will not lower with more students…all of that “free market” non-sense does not apply to these institutions.
If you can not afford to go…many of these schools do not want your type.
By cnote
February 23, 2009 5:59 PM | Link to this
Did they even have public schools during the Salem Witch Trials?
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
February 23, 2009 7:51 PM | Link to this
Yes they did. Which is why this whole crap conservatives spout about how “The current Public Education system is modeled after Nazi Germany” is complete crap.
As is just about everything that conservatives spout these days.
Like pretending Senator McCarthy was a swell guy and there ‘really were’ communists because a few were later found out because of classified government spy programs.
That doesn’t mean HE knew anything. He used blank pieces of paper to have his lists of names, just like Republican ideology.
Blank pieces of paper.
By SickoftheTyranny
February 23, 2009 8:59 PM | Link to this
Jeff said: “Ah, but if the Department of Education was eliminated and parents allowed totally free choice on how to educate their own kids, we wouldn’t have these issues to begin with…
Jeff, what a great idea! If we did that, maybe we could go back to the literacy levels we had here in Georgia before the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the institution of public education in the South! Wow! Wouldn’t THAT be impressive?
By SickoftheTyranny
February 23, 2009 9:33 PM | Link to this
Jeff said: “Ah, but if the Department of Education was eliminated and parents allowed totally free choice on how to educate their own kids, we wouldn’t have these issues to begin with…
Jeff, what a great idea! If we did that, maybe we could go back to the literacy levels we had here in Georgia before the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the institution of public education in the South! Wow! Wouldn’t THAT be impressive?
By Barry
February 23, 2009 10:45 PM | Link to this
Bill Jackson, a former member of the Columbia County Board of Education, will betray generations of his constituents if he signs on for this anti-public school giveaway to a parallel school system.
By Jeff
February 24, 2009 8:23 AM | Link to this
Sick:
Do you honestly think that the majority of parents would allow their kids to go uneducated?
Yes, some would.
Many more do now, only they think that because their kid goes to school every day, he is somehow getting educated by osmosis, even when he does NOTHING but be physically in the room during the day.
But this notion that ‘every child must go to college’ is not only FAILed, but is nearing EPIC FAILed proportions.
As usual, those in the Big Government Party have noble intentions, I don’t deny that.
But the devil is in the details, and those in the Big Government Party are killing us all, one uneducated public school graduate at a time.
By Copyleft
February 24, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this
Jeff: You’re right. We should switch to a system where kids get as much quality education as their parents can afford.
That’s a real Land of Opportunity!