I am sure everyone has heard about the teacher layoffs and many other suggested educational budget cuts, but have you heard about the textbooks issues? Well, in my readings of the layoff situation, I came across an article by FUBAR:   A briefing on the Texas Republicans in charge: public education .  The article is a little forward and although I do not completely agree with his view, he does bring some other interesting items to attention.  

I was aware of the verbiage issue and the debate on how to "fix" the verbal discrepancies, but I was not aware that a Senator proposes publicly funded textbooks for private schools  .  Now, the article itself is quite interesting but what caught even more of my attention were the other blogger posts.

I feel that there are several great points made by blogs, however I feel like the largest issue was completely overlooked.  If the state cannot provide the needed funds for public school teachers and books why in hell would we propose to provide this to private schools?  Now, I am not saying that private school kids do not deserve the textbooks, but I will say that most (not all) but most children in private school are already at a greater advantage than kids in public. You have to pay for your children to attend private school which means those parents already pay for their children to be provided with smaller classes, more one on one time, and with what they believe to be better educational information. Whereas, many children that attend public school would not be provided any education if not for the public school system and there "questionably" worded textbooks.