Fund the Children, Not the Schools

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Why is it that parents have so little control over where their children go to school? Unless you homeschool or send your child to a private school, you’re at the mercy of the government and the Teachers Unions. That needs to change. Corey DeAngelis, National Director of Research at the American Federation for Children, explains why. Donate today to help keep PragerU podcasts and videos free! PragerU.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fund the children, not the schools.
0:02.8	If ever an idea as time has come, it's this one.
0:06.1	What does it mean?
0:07.3	It means parents decide where to send their children to school,
0:10.7	not the government.
0:12.3	A radical idea?
0:14.3	Hardly.
0:15.6	The federal government already gives money to college students
0:18.4	in the form of Pell grants.
0:20.1	The student decides which college he or she wants to go to,
0:23.6	not the government.
0:25.2	The same is true with the GI Bill.
0:27.1	The veteran decides which school he wants to give a scholarship money to,
0:30.8	not the government.
0:32.8	Taxpayer funded pre-K programs such as Head Start follow the same model.
0:37.0	Parents decide not the government,
0:39.5	which preschool they want their child to attend.
0:42.5	We don't force low-income families to spend their food stamp dollars
0:46.0	at government-run grocery stores.
0:48.2	They can go anywhere they want,
0:49.8	Walmart, Target, Safeway, or any other similar store.
0:54.4	The time has come to apply the same logic to K-12 education.
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