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Homeschoolers/private schoolers
Help me please.
I went to my daughter's kindergarten program tonight and the co president of the PTA shared some "interesting" information with the over 300 parents there.
There is a movement in the House of Reps here to get homeschoolers or parents of children in private school a tax credit of 2000$ per year.
The school was handing out little postcards with requests for signatures in order to defeat the bill and keep money in the public school. The co president informed everyone that they could sign the paper and drop it off at the office, they would take it to Columbia and file a petition to get this tax credit killed. I was furious! I couldn't believe that man was standing there telling these people to just sign that little card and drop it off. He told them that this would take MILLIONS of dollars away from their school/education system. If I were a parent in that room that wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying, I would have signed that little card and went on my merry way.
This tax credit is a reimbursement of sorts for homeschoolers or private schoolers. Everyone pays taxes to support public education but why should a homeschooler have to foot the bill for my child? Their child isn't reaping any benefits from the tax money they are paying so why should they get stuck with the bill? And how dare this man stand up and ask these unsuspecting parents to just sign that little postcard without encouraging them to educate themselves on what exactly that would entail?
Granted, if the tax credit goes through, the public school system will lose money. They might even lose students to parents who will them be able to afford to send their child to private school or even those who want to attempt to homeschool. Why can't the PTA simply try and find the money elsewhere? We have the SC State Education Lottery Fund here, suck some money out of that. Jack up the tax on alcohol and cigarette sales to make up the lost money.
Think of how the school might profit from smaller class sizes. His reasoning for keeping the tax credit from passing? Even though those homeschooled students aren't IN the school, it still costs money to heat and cool that building. I was floored. He's saying that the main reason they want to kill this bill is so they can afford to pay their electric bill?? How warped is that?
I need to take time to cool of and then write this *#*@& a letter. Can anyone please help me find a way to write this as professionally as possible? I'm just floored that he thinks since he went to an hour long meeting on what this tax credit will entail, he's justified in trying to screw homeschoolers or private schoolers out of money that is rightfully theirs!
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