I urge you to oppose school vouchers and "Education Savings Accounts" (ESAs). These might sound like good ideas, but they're actually a slippery slope toward government regulation of home and private schools. If government can fund private and home schools, the government can also tell them how and what to teach, and enact other draconian restrictions. This may not happen now, but ESAs and vouchers are a slippery slope toward that happening. The proper solution is 1) do ensure that home and private schools are completely free of government dependence, and 2) to instead defund the public-school system and get government out of education. Please take these steps, and oppose ESAs and vouchers.

I implore you to oppose and vote against education vouchers and Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Although touted as promoting "school choice," these programs will do the opposite -- they actually will increase government control over education. Vouchers and ESAs are closely connected to the United Nations and its push to indoctrinate children with international-socialist ideology. For example, UNESCO has advocated subsidizing private schools with tax money in order to control them (i.e., impose the same leftist standards on them as public schools). Also, if government gives parents and private schools money, it creates dependence. Then, government can attach strings to its funding, and the parents and private schools will have no choice but to acquiesce. Look at Sweden, Canada, and other countries, where the private schools now teach leftist dogma, because they're totally dependent on government funding. If we are to avoid this from happening here, we must keep private and home schools independent. Thus, please oppose and vote against voucher and ESA proposals.

I strongly request that you oppose "Education Savings Accounts" (ESAs) and school voucher programs. Contrary to the narrative that these protect school choice, these proposals actually will make private and home schools totally dependent on government support -- thus trapping and forcing them to accept tyrannical government edicts. This shouldn't be surprising -- the United Nations (specifically UNESCO) explicitly supports government subsidization of private schools in order to gain control over them and their curriculum. And in Sweden, Australia, and other countries, religious schools are now forced to teach things that contradict their religious teachings -- because they're dependent on government funding. ESAs and vouchers open the door to government control over non-public education. Please protect private and home schools by opposing ESA/voucher programs.

I urge you to oppose and reject ESAs ("Educational Savings Accounts") and vouchers. These programs are a major -- and potentially disastrous -- intrusion of government into private and home education. By funding parents and private/religious schools, ESAs and vouchers promote dependence on government subsidies. And when this happens, government can force them to adopt "woke" curriculum and other draconian policies -- this has already happened in other countries with similar programs (Canada, Sweden, etc.). Instead of trapping parents and private schools, we must get government completely out of education. Accordingly, please defund and abolish public schools -- our country prospered intellectually for well over 100 years without government schools -- and oppose vouchers and ESA programs.

Please oppose proposals to establish or expand ESA and voucher programs. Contrary to what many people think, these programs threaten the independence of private schools and home schools. Other countries -- including Sweden, Australia, and Canada -- have enacted similar programs, and with devastating effects. Private schools are heavily regulated and have no independence in what they teach. Many of them (even Christian schools) are forced to teach far-left dogma, including LGBT propaganda. In our country, ESA/voucher programs may not have similar strings attached -- right now -- but it could easily happen later on. The current proposals and programs are a slippery slope toward government control. Please protect genuine educational freedom by opposing ESA and voucher programs. Instead of trapping parents and private schools, please defund and abolish public schools.