Private schools accept special-needs students

I am sick

of anti-voucher lies about private schools. I hear their debaters say things like, "Private schools won't take children with special needs who struggle in school because it will hurt their test scores." That is untrue and an insult to parents, like me, whose children do have special needs, and who already use a voucher to attend a private school.

Utah already has a voucher program, the Carson Smith Voucher. It applies only to children with special needs, and hundreds of children like mine are using it and getting a quality education.

Private schools in Utah participate in this program, proving that they can and do accept students with special needs.

But why limit the program just to special-education students? Many children without learning disabilities also struggle in school and need another option. Don't those kids also deserve the best education they can find, too?

Hillary Stirling
Orem

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