Mary Louise Wilson: Why are our public schools targeted by the NH voucher system?

To The Daily Sun,

Today's students will be tomorrow's leaders, educators, police, fire, business owners and everything else that makes up society.

The voucher system New Hampshire has in place is questionable at best. Whether a family decides to send their children to private school, religious school or homeschool, there is no way to evaluate and assess what the student has learned. Home-schooling has no way of assessing what a student has learned or if they have any schooling at all. Private and religious schools have a variety of curricula, some very good, but not all children are accepted. The state has no way of monitoring whether a student has learned anything or if that student is even involved in any education at all.

Following the same idea that if parents don’t use the public school, they shouldn’t have to pay for it, why not use that same plan for police, fire department, library, plowing and maintenance of the roads, etc.?

We live as a community, that means we share and live with others. The idea of pay as a need arises has never worked. Why are our public schools targeted?

Mary Louise Wilson

Alton