Another day, another outrageous comment from one of the ladies on “The View.” This time it was Sunny Hostin putting her foot in it, demonstrating how unfamiliar she is with school choice.
In a heated exchange with co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, Hostin made two patently false statements about school voucher programs. The first is that the recipients of these vouchers come from “overwhelmingly” wealthy families. The second is that vouchers divert money from public schools.
Neither is true. I live in North Carolina, where about 50,000 people are on a waitlist for vouchers. The grants in question are for $3,000 and $7,000 per student per year.
Trust me, truly wealthy families wouldn’t even get out of bed for this kind of money, let alone tackle the paperwork involved in the application process. But $3,000 to $7,000 is a godsend for a middle-class family whose child is struggling in a public school or who want their child’s education to reflect their family’s religious commitments.
Vouchers are meant to ensure that students failed by the one-size-fits-all public school model have a fair shake at a decent education. Their degree of vulnerability does not correlate to their parents’ income but to how they are served — or not served, as the case may be — by public schools. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
