Corey DeAngelis
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first heard Mar 2025
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Okay, so... So I'm not saying that we shouldn't try because it isn't perfect enforcement, but we should have both of these. We need top-down accountability but also bottom-up. If you're a parent, you get a whiff of these things happening. Even if you can't prove it before a judge and change the school system that way, you need to be able to say, you know what? Screw this.
I'm sending my kids somewhere else. And I think that would give a pressure for the public schools to say, let's knock it off. I don't want to irritate anybody on the left or the right. I'm going to focus on the basics, math, reading, and writing. And then, you know, you're not going to have all of them. And so you might say, well, what about the private schools?
Some of them, they also operate in this kind of small market right now already when you don't have choice. But when you unleash the market and families can vote with their feet, you'll have a different supply of private schools pop up as well. Especially right now, we're pushing something called education savings accounts.
It's kind of like a voucher where you can use it for a private school, but you can also use it for homeschooling, micro schooling. They were calling them pandemic pods during the COVID era where five to 10 children were getting together in a household, kind of like the one room schoolhouse idea.
Those are more likely to sprout up and you're more likely to have a thousand flowers blooming if you have these low cost options. And this has happened in Arizona too.
Yeah, because if you only have a couple elite private schools and they're captured by the left, it's kind of like, okay, what can I do now? I'd say that's still better than the status quo where you have zero choices, but at least now you can take the funding. Hey, if you want to just homeschool your own kids and use it for the curriculum or private tutors,
That is a step in the right direction, even if it's not perfect.
Most of them now are. And Arizona has an education savings account. They've had one for over a decade. They just went all in in 2022, making it available to everybody. They actually crashed the government website in Arizona because so many families signed up right when they opened up the floodgates.
Yeah, right. It's subsidy for- But it's a failing system that not a lot of people don't see it as a benefit.
Think about a classroom of – 30 kids, that's $600,000. Where's all the money going? If the teacher's only making $60,000 a year on average, where's the rest?
So that's over $120,000. You know, a lot of them make more than the president of the United States. We have a half a dozen or so who make over $400,000 a year.
So one of the school districts in Texas, La Jolla ISD, made headlines recently because they had a big water park at their campus. So maybe that improves the self-esteem of the kids or whatever the teachers are trying to do these days. But it's just frivolous things. And you see this at the university level, too.
They have these extravagant water parks and tuitions going up to cover these things and also subsidies from the government, too. But these micro schools are really shaking things up. The whole factory model itself is frightened because of this. In fact, when Trenda Micro Schools in Arizona was reporting just huge increases in enrollment during COVID because the government schools were closed.
So families were figuring it out, and a lot of them went to these micro schools. The NEA, which is the largest labor union in the country, the National Education Association, they also lobbied the CDC to close the schools longer. They put out an opposition research sheet on Prenda Microschools and their founder, Kelly Smith, because they were so afraid of them –
Of them basically providing something that they weren't providing to students. They knew they were going to lose funding because public schools are funded based on enrollment counts. And so if you lose some students, you're going to lose some money, whether you have a school choice program or not.
And in Arizona, you can use those education savings accounts to pay for Prenda micro schools and other ones too. Define micro school. Yeah. It's a miniature school, and there's a lot of different definitions for it, but basically a miniature private school. And during COVID era, it was basically five to ten children getting together in households to economize on homeschooling.
And you can either do it with one of the parents, you can take turns with the parents doing different subjects, or you can even hire a private tutor to do it as the teacher.
So it saves taxpayer money, and most of these bills are passed at the state level. In the U.S., we're funded in the public school system in every state by the federal level, which should not exist at all. The word education is not in our constitution. It's an unconstitutional waste of time and money. But that's only about 8% of the total spending, 8% to 10%.
The other $45,000, $45,000 are state and local dollars. These bills are typically passed in state legislatures, so it's about half of the total that follows the student. So let's say on average $10,000 versus the $20,000 that's spent in the government schools.
There have been some local vouchers that have passed in Colorado, a blue state. There was Douglas County had at once a couple decades ago passed a voucher program. It got nixed in the court by a lefty judge, and that program is no longer on the books.
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