Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis ®, according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new

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    The teachers are not buying swing sets for their schools.

    Regardless nothing about my comment suggests teachers should oay for necessary things

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      That doesn’t justify what I was talking about at all. And even in that case, the child gets to play with the swing set after school, unlike kids at public schools.

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        Most public schools have playgrounds already. There are good educational reasons for kids to have them.

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          Again- kids at public schools can only play on those playgrounds at recess. These homeschoolers can play with their swingsets all the time. That is a two-tiered system.

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            And those kids parents can get the same money if they choose to homeschool. It isn’t a two tier system.

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              Of course it’s a two-tier system. Do you think every parent is rich enough to survive on a single income while the other parent homeschools their children?

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                My buddy is a poet and his wife works for the park services and despite an income of 50k a year they make it work.

                Im not sure you understand how many people who aren’t rich homeschool because they cannot afford daycare.

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                    Welfare though I doubt any single parent is homeschooling. In my buddy’s case they are part of an atheistic group of homeschoolers and they share teaching responsibilities.