FL, AZ already turn public school money over to parents. Other states ready to do so. Choice is

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23. This will destroy teacher certification.

Why pay all that money to go to college. take the education courses and become a competent teacher when you can skip college or take no education courses or even business courses, advertise yourself as an unlicensed tutor and charge parents for your services. Some enterprising people will organize classes, stun ignorant parents with empty promises and lies and slide through on this.

I believe that if this is to be the law, then EVERY CHILD IN AMERICA SHOULD HAVE TO TAKE THE VERY SAME TESTS THAT CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS TAKE. And they should take them in monitored locations so that the privately and homeschooled children do not become an underclass of unschooled citizens. Some parents are qualified, capable and disciplined enough to homeschool their children. Most of them are not.

I never taught grade or high school beyond working briefly as a substitute, but I did take some education courses in college. They are valuable.

At a time when the ability of our children to compete in the world economy is a major issue, this development is counterproductive to say the least. We should be increasing our educational standards for all children, not releasing some children to who knows what unprepared, incompetent self-styled educators.