Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis ®, according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new

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    Of course it’s a two-tier system. Do you think every parent is rich enough to survive on a single income while the other parent homeschools their children?

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      My buddy is a poet and his wife works for the park services and despite an income of 50k a year they make it work.

      Im not sure you understand how many people who aren’t rich homeschool because they cannot afford daycare.

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          Welfare though I doubt any single parent is homeschooling. In my buddy’s case they are part of an atheistic group of homeschoolers and they share teaching responsibilities.

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            You think welfare is enough to sustain a single parent so they can homeschool? Really? Do you know how low welfare payments are?

            It’s virtually impossible for most single parents to homeschool and I think you know that.

            So it’s two-tiered.

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              No but I don’t think every single social program needs to be utilized by everyone.

              Why should people like my buddy’s kid not have access to swings?

              Do you support college loans being paid off?

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                Why should people like a single mother not have access to the same vouchers despite their children going to public school? Or does that particular social program not need to be utilized by everyone?

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                  They do have access to these programs but they likely cannot use them. Unless you want an incredibly authoritarian system there cannot be a state where all programs will be used by everyone.