Throwing School Voucher Money Away based on the Conservative Religious Belief System.

With the recent wave of radical Republican governors nationwide, along with a few right wing legislatures, we're about to see how their economic belief system works in reality. For voucher suckers, parents who know more about education than anybody else, are about to take our tax dollars without accountability and give it to private schools. Our Republican authority knows what's best:

AJC: If you want to see where Georgia conservatives want to take education in this state, look five hundred miles west to Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal is implementing a voucher program intended to move hundreds of thousands of students out of public schools and into privately run schools at taxpayer expense. Louisiana officials have made it clear that they do not intend to impose teacher standards on those schools. Students attending voucher schools will be immune to the high-stakes testing that is required in the state’s public schools. In addition, the state will not sit in judgment of what the schools teach or how they teach it.

Quality control? Forget it, parents will do that for government officials. Word of mouth works so well, and that lost year of lousy education for your kid, oh well:

John White, Louisiana’s school superintendent, has told the press that it should be up to parents, not the state, to gauge whether private schools are delivering a quality education. “To me, it’s a moral outrage that the government would say, ‘We know what’s best for your child,’” White said. “Who are we to tell parents we know better?”

Ah, you're the ones we put in charge of our government and purse strings? Doh!

That “who are we to judge?” The program was signed into law by Jindal in April and takes effect immediately. The result has been an educational gold rush. For example, New Living Word, the school offering the most open slots to voucher students, “has a top-ranked basketball team but no library. Students spend most of the day watching TVs in barebones classrooms. Each lesson consists of an instructional DVD that intersperses Biblical verses with subjects such chemistry or composition.”

Real education visionaries.