Kentucky Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on February 19, 2008

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I totally support allowing parents to choose how and where their children are educated. Given that so many government-involved institutions fail miserably, I can't imagine a parent who would not welcome the opportunity to educate their children through charter schools.

I think this is the best bill ever and I support it 100%.

Competition will help improve all schools in KY. This bill will challenge all educators to do a better job for our children.

which is why it will never get passed. go frankfort! screwing us over year after year!

My son was kick out of his school for breaking up a fight. At least that's what they were saying. I believe now the real reason is because that where coming up on review and they where tring to get rid of all of the students that where strugling in school so they would look better. The boy who started it is an "A" student and was kept at the school. My husband and I where convenced by the school board to let him go to an Alturnative school. They said my son was falling behind in his classes and would be sent thier in a few mo. anyway. I didn't want him to go thier but agenst my better jugment my husband sined him up. over the little time he was thier it was devasting to him. His grades fell even more than befor. His hole demenore change and his hopes for the futucher are slowly disapeering in his mind. I gave him incouragement and tried to keep his hopes up but the school was killing him slowly inside. Now he is sixteen and I have chosen not to put him back threw another year of dispair. Find another school to put him in is a challange to say the least. I wish I had stood my ground in the begining and never let him go to the altunative school in the first place. Just the other day my son came home and told me he tried to talk to the school that sent him to the alturnative school and tell them how he couldn't stand to be thier and how unhappy he was be thrown into a school with crimanul. He want to tell them he wanted his futcher back. But all they did was kick out once agian. Our hearts are sick. I realy don't know what to do. All he has ever talked about is going to high school and then collage. Now he has quit school untill we can find another And he is scared that he will never get a real high school education. Just A GED. So many times we have tried to talk to our school board to get him back in school. I even asked if he could go to KY Virutal high school Or even just study at home. Every ideal we have come up with was shot down. Now my son in in counsoling over this school and has know school to go to. How sad this world has become when a young adult can't see his owen futcher because of the greed of the and ignorince of the so called adults that are supost to be helping them. My son has disgraphia and instead of helping they thew him aside> sad to say he was not the only one. {The school did so well on thier review they got funds to build on.}They are getting almost a new school.At the cost of the youth that where not strem line students BY: Mom in KY