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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    If your circumstances mean you have no choice to put your children in public school because you’re a single mother working two jobs just to support your children, it is not available to you. It simply isn’t. I have no idea why you think everyone can homeschool just because you know someone who does.

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      Your confusion seems to be what available means.

      The state is not preventing single parents from accessing it. It IS available to the single parent. The only people who cannot access this are childless people.

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        You seem to not know what a two tiered system means. A single mother working two jobs has no possibility of accessing that money. Again, you think anyone can homeschool and that is patently false.

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          I don’t think everyone can homeschool. I never said they could.

          A single parent being unable to afford to homeschool does not mean the money is not available to them. The money is available but their circumstances prevent its use. That is why I said your confusion is over what “available” means.

          Your inability to homeschool does not mean the program is not available to you. You could choose to homeschool and get the money if you want.

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            I don’t think everyone can homeschool. I never said they could.

            Thank you for admitting it’s a two-tiered system.

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              That does not make it two tiered. The poor person could choose to homeschool and access these funds. They are available to anyone with kids.

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                Nonsense. How could they ‘choose to homeschool’ if that would mean they couldn’t afford to feed their children?

                And don’t say ‘welfare’ again. Florida is a welfare to work state, that means you can only be on it for a limited time while you look for a job.

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                  The availability of the funds is based on whether you choose to homeschool not whether it makes financial sense for you to do so which us why I keep saying they are in fact available to all parents because they are.

                  If they will talk to you Ultra Orthodox Jews can explain exactly how you do this as there are thousands of people in those communities who homeschool and have no income.

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                    Again, some people can’t make that choice. Because it isn’t always a choice. You say you don’t think anyone can homeschool, but you keep talking as if they can. Unless everyone can homeschool, there are two tiers because some people are literally unable to access those funds. They do not have that choice to make. So no, they aren’t available to all parents since they aren’t available to poor single mothers working multiple jobs. They cannot make the choice to homeschool no matter how much you think they have that option available to them.