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Mike Rosen on Utah vouchers

Saturday, March 31 at 9:00 AM

Karen Shaw of Westminster writes:

I just finished reading Mike Rosen’s column lauding the fact that Utah just passed a school voucher program. I don’t find this too surprising considering that Utah has 62.4% of their population and 80% of their state legislature sharing the Mormon religion. This will be a windfall for their church schools.
Mr. Rosen also takes this opportunity to denigrate teacher’s unions. Well Mike, in this state I don’t think the teachers were the only ones who voted against the vouchers—-a vote which you would like to see ignored or overturned.
I assume you must think those of us who voted against vouchers are just not as enlightened as you. I will be happy to vote for vouchers when the private schools have to meet the same requirements as the public schools——having the same accountability to the CSAP scores, providing an education for all children no matter what their educational needs or behavioral problems and meeting the same standards for terminating uninterested and uninvolved students that the public schools have to meet.
It is easy to blame the public school teachers (and their union) for problems over which they sometimes have little control while failing to hold parents or society in general accountable for the problems which public schools face today.

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