Fred David: Educational Freedom Accounts, school choice are important

To The Daily Sun,

In the April 23 edition of this paper, Joyce Weston of Plymouth (presumably the same Joyce Weston who, from 2018 to 2022, represented Plymouth in the NH House of Representatives as a Democrat) confidently cited language written by John Adams as being in the U.S. Constitution prohibiting tax dollars from being used for religious schools, ostensibly as an argument against New Hampshire's Educational Freedom Accounts (more commonly known as school vouchers).

There is just one problem, though: the excerpt Ms. Weston quoted is not from the U.S. Constitution. It is from the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

That matters because, unlike the U.S. Constitution, Massachusetts' constitution carries about as much legal authority on us Granite Staters as the constitution of Iran.

Ms. Weston's confusion is, unintentionally, a strong argument for why NH's Educational Freedom Accounts and school choice are so important. Parents, regardless of income, should be able to choose schools for their children that will provide a quality education — the kind that teaches students, including future state legislators and newspaper editors, the difference between the U.S. Constitution and Massachusetts' constitution.

Fred David

Sanbornton