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I can understand the attraction to a program
called School

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Choice or the School Voucher Program.

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I can understand that the word choice is in
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title, and that must seem like a very
appealing thing

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to parents.

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However, there is something that you need to
understand about

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the fundamental way that this system has been
specifically set

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up and specifically funded.

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It's important for you to understand that this
particular program

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called School Choice or the School Vouchers
will take away

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your choice to send your children to public
school by

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defunding the school public school
institutions.

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That means any parent who likes their current
public school

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right now and is sending their child to public
schools

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right now in which they enjoy, that school is
about

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to be defunded.

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We've seen this in other states in the
country.

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Illinois, for example, has implemented the
school voucher program, and

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their school uh public school systems are
suffering so bad

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that they only have three or four day-a-week
uh school

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sessions.

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I understand that many Texan parents want to
have the

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choice in which school they send their
children to.

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And look, that is something we can talk about
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work on, but we cannot defund our public
schools in

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the same process.

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If you truly wanted to have choice, then you
should

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have the choice to send your kids to other
schools,

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but we should not be taking away your original
choice

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in the first place.

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There are many parents who enjoy their current
public schools,

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and they should not have their current choice
to send

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their kids to their current schools be taken
away from

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them.