Hawkeye21

I know that I see kids go to the public school because the private school is unable to provide what's needed.

Are you talking about schools in inner cities? I don't believe that is a problem with schools in rural America.

No, these are legit reasons for concern and a lot of other Iowans share the same concerns.

The will most likely be a loss of money to our already struggling public schools. These schools will end up closing and the small towns will struggle. It's already been slowly happening and I foresee this making it happen more.

I worry about kids with special needs. Private schools usually don't offer services for students with special needs. Every time I read into the voucher program I see more negatives than positives.

I think you're running out of material.

Playstation but the PC has been inching towards the top.

Saving Private Ryan.

Apples, watermelon and tomatoes. I can't pick just one.

Sweet corn, could be argued it's a grain and not a vegetable though.

Field of Dreams is in the top 5 for me. I really like a lot of sports movies though so it's hard to pick just one.

From what I've read, there isn't any oversight of what those private schools do with that money either.

I must have remembered it wrong then. I thought I read some complaints with republicans saying they didn't vote for this. Apparently they did and now they have to deal with the results.

https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2023/01/24/the-twelve-iowa-republicans-who-voted-against-school-vouchers/ https://www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/meetingPublicComment?meetingID=35782&action=viewCommitteePublicComments The majority of complaints are not from republicans but there are more than usual. I've seen more republican against this than I've ever seen for anything else before. I think the majority of farmers in our state are republican and those farmers live in rural areas where there are no private schools close to them. This does not benefit most republicans in Iowa.

Just my observations from seeing people's responses on social media and to the news articles. It may not be as bad as I think it is but I don't recall seeing republicans voicing their displeasure over other issues like this. I think it makes sense though, most Iowans feel similar about our education. We have a lot of rural area, why would we want to hurt our public schools?

Wouldn't surprise me a tiny bit.

Correct.

I remember seeing a decent amount of republicans upset with it because they didn't know she was going to do it before they voted.

Correct. The teachers I know were not happy with it and the same with a lot of the public. None of it matters now though. She is who the majority voted for and this is what she decided to do with our schools.

From what I can remember, the general public in Iowa were upset with the voucher program because Reynolds did not run on that policy. A lot of people would not have voted for her if they knew that was what she was going to do. It's too late now so we'll just have to see how it works.

This is brilliant!

The new voucher system.

Loophole

Him admitting to watching hours and hours of child porn is the most disturbing part. He seems to be getting a pass for that.