My son-in-law insisted the family had to get out of the City. Chicago schools were no good, he said, and there was no hope of change. I tried to get them to consider Catholic schools as an alternative to leaving. But now the voucher idea is apparently dead, so perhaps he was right.
I’m sorry your son-in-law felt our public schools were not for him. But public funding of parochial schools violate constitutional separation of church and state and takes needed dollars away from already underfunded public schools. By the way, both of my children who are now adults and public school teachers themselves, attended CPS.
My wife and I sent our kids to a Catholic school in the most densely Hispanic zip code in the US. Because the school was well run, my kids grew up multiculture, but the test scores were off the charts, both for the school and for our kids.
The nearby publuc schools were failing then and are still failing now. My daughter and her husband simply could not afford the Catholic school. There was no choice for them, as there had been for my wife and I.
I voted based on the issues circumstance forced me to confront. You've read what Johnson said about us. This was a clear signal that he did not believe he needed our vote and that if he were elected, our issues would never be attended to.
It simply wouldn't have made any sense to support someone who took such a stance. We should vote for those who mean us well. These are our friends.
My son-in-law insisted the family had to get out of the City. Chicago schools were no good, he said, and there was no hope of change. I tried to get them to consider Catholic schools as an alternative to leaving. But now the voucher idea is apparently dead, so perhaps he was right.
I’m sorry your son-in-law felt our public schools were not for him. But public funding of parochial schools violate constitutional separation of church and state and takes needed dollars away from already underfunded public schools. By the way, both of my children who are now adults and public school teachers themselves, attended CPS.
My wife and I sent our kids to a Catholic school in the most densely Hispanic zip code in the US. Because the school was well run, my kids grew up multiculture, but the test scores were off the charts, both for the school and for our kids.
The nearby publuc schools were failing then and are still failing now. My daughter and her husband simply could not afford the Catholic school. There was no choice for them, as there had been for my wife and I.
I voted based on the issues circumstance forced me to confront. You've read what Johnson said about us. This was a clear signal that he did not believe he needed our vote and that if he were elected, our issues would never be attended to.
It simply wouldn't have made any sense to support someone who took such a stance. We should vote for those who mean us well. These are our friends.
You speak for yourself. There’s no “we” here. You want to send your kids to private school? Go for it. Don’t ask me to pay for it.