Comments about ‘House passes education budget with amendments’

I'm glad to read that legislators decided to cut all public school budgets the same rather than single out public charter schools for cuts in spending.

News Flash - The legislature will steal from the schools AGAIN.

Have students set up room. Help prepare lesson plans and copy papers.

They cut all teacher prep days. Teaching the only profession were you are supposed to donate as many hours as you work.

Charters WHINE and get their way again (they have replaced the UEA as the biggest whiners in the State).

More Legislators will get rich by building more Charters and then selling them for hundreds of thousands of dollars over the appraised value.

The EVIL Parents for Choice in Education wins another round. Look out...

Charter schools are usually built for a LOT less money than a comparable public school. We don't need more cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all public schools. We do need a variety of options - for a variety of different children. If you've got evidence of impropriety, by all means let's hear it and dump the guy. But until then, send yours to the school you like, and let me send mine to the one that works best for them.

A mom of 3 - none of whom fit in a one-size-fits-all school.

Charter schools offer a different environment, one that is greatly appreciated by the families it serves. Families like the smaller classes, the curriculum being taught (It isn't Investigations Math where a few kids investigate math and no one learns without a tutor), the focus and academics.

I applaud the legislature for not kneeling to District and UEA talking heads. They are out to serve themselves and have always felt threatened by change. The change is here and most importantly, will be allowed to continue to flourish.

To: Oh boo hoo to you

We DID hear the evidence against a certain Utah Legislator and his Charter company. Charter schools WERE sold for hundreds of millions of dollars over appraisal value--what does that do to your unproven (yet often blathered about) theory of Charters costing less? The sheeple in Utah saw the (R) next to this self-serving Legislators name and did NOT dump him as they should have.

BTW: I'm tired of paying for your "choice" in education. If you have 3 children clogging up the school system then you should PAY for your choices!!!

Anonymous | 5:47 p.m. March 12, 2009

Anyone who has children should pay for their choice. Public education is being paid for by other people, not by the families burdening our society with an abundance of kids. I am a single guy with no kids. I pay my fair share of taxes. It is time we eliminate tax deductions for dependents.

Or not. Frankly, I want kids to get the best education. The best education will be given at the school that best fits the child. Some kids best fit the square peg hole provided by a district. Some kids don't. Since I am paying for these kids, I want the choice to exist. If you want to be a communist and remove that freedom, move.

None of you people having kids are currently paying for them unless you make the big bucks. I am. I say give kids the best education and don't short change them by limiting options. As long as it isn't vouchers (they take too much of my money and I don't know how the school is doing), give them choice.

Please tell me you don't really think the people at Parents for Choice in Education are "EVIL." I would hope that we would reserve that title for people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, along with serial murderers and rapists. When we use it to label people we disagree with politically, we rob the word of the power it deserves to have.

Also, every interest, from charter schools, to the UEA, to the PTA, and everyone else, goes to the legislature to whine, but we call it lobbying because that sounds better, I guess. Please don't insinuate that only those who disagree with you politically lobby.