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Traffic moves across the intersection of Westheimer Road at Buffalo Speedway and Claremont Lane in front of St. John’s School, Friday, March 25, 2022, in Houston.Four main takeaways from Gov. Greg Abbott’s State of the State Address
," : If Mr. Abbott is fully informed about school choice vouchers, he will include the other side of the story. It is school choice – if you can afford it. Houston Independent School District spends about $10,000 per student each year. Assuming that, at the most, 100 percent of that is refunded to parents to pay for private school, let's look at how much private school costs.
At the high school level, according to their websites: the St. John’s High School tuition is $34,170; Kinkaid High School tuition is $32,050; St. Thomas Episcopal School is $27,275; St. Thomas High School is $21,900; and Duchesne Academy is $28,850. Ergo, if you choose among some of the highest regarded private upper schools in Houston, your choice will cost somewhere around $29,000. That assumes you have only one child.
Logically, the result of Abbott’s school voucher idea is to take money away from public schools at the expense of those students whose parents cannot afford to pay around $29,000 per year and subsidize those parents who already can and do afford to pay the cost of private schools. At one time we valued education for all our children as a social necessity for a viable democracy. Now we are considering valuing it only if you can pay more than someone else can.
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