The interesting part about that? Nearly 90% of students enrolled in a Catholic elementary or secondary school receive some financial assistance to help cover the cost of tuition. After Florida passed their school choice bill, enrollment in Catholic schools tripled. Catholic schools in Florida actually have more Hispanic students (45%) than the Florida government schools (37%).
The purpose of publicly funding the education of the next generation of citizens is to ensure that they become educated, not to fund government schools. When it is patently obvious to anyone with ability to reason present in your average fence post that the government schools are not accomplishing their mission, education of the next generation of citizens, it is time to find a means of publicly funding the education of those children, not their warehousing during the day at taxpayer expense.
I went to a Denver Catholic high school. Half of the students were on financial aid, and there were 25% Hispanic students. Many of the students earned scholarship dollars by cleaning classrooms after classes and doing light maintenance like painting the football stadium bleachers or working as trainers for the athletic teams.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
