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    Filed at 4:02 pm under by dcobranchi

    Does it make any sense at all that SC wants to offer a tax credit of $1000 for parents who don’t send their kids to the g-schools have kids in private schools yet only $500 for parents who don’t send their kids to the g-schools homeschool?

    5 Responses to “I’M CONFUSED”


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    February 14th, 2007
    at 4:57 pm

    What if you homeschool, are poor, and have left a low-rated school system? Do you get a $5000 credit?


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    February 14th, 2007
    at 4:59 pm

    Or rather…a $500 tax credit and a $4500 tuition reimbursement?


    Comment by
    Valerie
    February 15th, 2007
    at 10:49 am

    If homeschooling families start getting tuition reimbursements because their kids don’t attend the local schools, as an empty-nester, I want my tax money back, too.

    Homeschooling families can use the system they support if they wish, but I don’t have any way to use the system. Neither do my three adult children who are unmarried. Our one son who does have children uses the schools, so I guess he’s getting use from his money, but what about the rest of us?

    Just because a taxpayer chooses to use a system other than the one that is already ‘paid for’ doesn’t entitle that person to a “reimbursement” of taxes if all others who can’t use it do not also get reimbursed … and that would leave the sytem funded by user-fees. (I’m not arguing one way or the other on user-fees, only that homeschooling doesn’t equal reimburseable)


    Comment by
    Daryl Cobranchi
    February 16th, 2007
    at 3:15 am

    I’m not saying I support the tax credit. On that one, I’m relatively agnostic. I just mention it because the differentiation between HEKs and private schoolers doesn’t make sense. The rationale last year was that the state and local governments were saving ~$8000 (IIRC) per student who wasn’t in the system. The tax credit was being sold as kind of an incentive to get parents to pull their kids out.

    This way just helps the anti-voucher arguments.


    Comment by
    Mimi
    February 16th, 2007
    at 10:40 am

    Everyone who chooses to reject the government schools should be able to choose how their school taxes are used. They should be able to use it for their own homeschooling program, an online program, a private school, a Christian school or whatever they have deemed appropriate for their child(ren). This is is the essence of educational freedom in my mind. To use my money in a way that I choose to be the best for my child.

    Mimi