KWHI CANDIDATES FORUM WEDNESDAY FOR WASHINGTON CO. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, STATE REPRESENTATIVE
KWHI’s second forum for the candidates in the March 5th primary election is set for this (Wednesday) evening.
Sheriff and Constable speak at KWHI's Candidates
Forum on Monday at Brenham National Bank.
The forum will take place at Brenham National Bank starting at 5:30 p.m., and will host the candidates for Washington County District Attorney and State Representative District 12.
For Washington County District Attorney, Derek Estep will go up against Dave Bunger. The winner of the Republican primary will be unopposed in November’s general election.
Texas House District 12 has three Republican candidates: Ben Bius, Trey Wharton and John Harvey Slocum. The winner among the three will face Democrat Dee Howard Mullins in November.
As with Monday’s forum, candidates will accept questions from those in attendance, the news media and emails submitted to mail@kwhi.com.
The forum can be heard on AM 1280, FM 101.7 and kwhi.com, as well as on KWHI’s Facebook page and through the KWHI mobile app.
Correction! … you have the freedom in America to open a private school of your choice if public schools DO NOT meet your “smell” test. My apology for any confusion caused by omitting the “NOT” from DO. Do not!
How would school choice take money away from public schools? The money is allocated per student so any money spent at another school would coincide with a student going to that school. Therefore the ratio of money to students stays the same. It seems like the people opposed to school choice have their priorities in the wrong place, or at the very least they have their facts wrong.
I got out of teaching after nearly 2 and 1/2 decades, and at one of the schools I taught closer to Houston, we had several students who migrated away from the district when a charter school opened on the northwest side of town. The kids came back the following year and they had basically done nothing for the entire school year other than sit around and be monitored by non-certified and in some cases non-degreed “teachers”. The issue is that the state will not be creating any sort of oversight for the schools that will be collecting the $10,000-ish dollars for each student. I think that should be worrisome that a small church might open a school and take in 40 or 50 students and gross $400,000 or more for the year, pay five people a minimum amount of money to sit and watch kids and call itself a school. With no oversight, the money is guaranteed to be misused even more so than schools are mismanaged now. I am not saying that there are not good, conscientious, private schools, but the idea that there is quick money to be had for attracting students, and especially students who are not top-level performers, will be a detriment in the long run, as the kids will always be behind if they reenter public school, and if they don’t, the job market will find out their lack of skills and qualifications.
Public schools are taking money from the taxpayers and failing our children. If public schools are so well run, they should have no problem whatsoever with competition. For Decades I have heard how public schools are overcrowded and underfunded, but the idea of fewer students is now a bad thing? It seems to me the teachers unions are seeing the money they take from teachers may start drying up and the public schools are going to have to be held to account on the money they have squandered over the years. School choice for Texas all the way.
Most people don’t want their tax dollars funneled into places that have myopic points of views. Atheists would not want their money being put toward a Christian or Muslim school program. A Christian would not want to use their money in a Brneham based private school exclusively geared toward the LGBTQ+ community. If the church of Satan opened a “school” in the heart of Brenham I doubt most humans would be open to the concept. Our tax dollars will be used to forward an agenda through the school voucher program and currently that program is geared toward closing the gap between church (Christianity in Texas’ case) and state. Public programs are meant to be all inclusive and to provide equal opportunity for all involved.
Well stated! Public schools are open to the public and are designed to be inclusive. If some group wants to open a private school of whatever fashion they have the freedom to do so, without using public tax money! They are free to use the legal or illegal proceeds of conventional Capitalism to fund the private school at their own risk or discretion. Public tax payer monies should never be put into a private enterprise that can exclude other taxpayers from using or enjoying the benefits of said private enterprise (school). Listen up all of you school voucher pushing folk … you have the freedom in America to open a private school of your choice if public schools do meet your “smell” test. What else do you want? Public tax money will not be used to fund your version of a private school. All of our children went to private school until they could not anymore. Then they all attended public school. We never asked for nor received a check from Uncle Sam or otherwise offering to pay the tuition for the choice we made. That is the price and privilege of being a parent.
Well said! I went to private school until 8th grade as did my many siblings. My parents didn’t receive aid or scholarships for ANY of us and my dads property taxes were never sent elsewhere. What my parents did know however, we’re what we were doing all day and if any discipline had been meted out and exactly what the circumstances were for said discipline. They also knew if any of us ‘had issues’. If we did, that was soon remedied. The schools have lost sight and the ability to do what they are paid to do. I’m so glad that I no longer have children in the public school system.