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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    The fact that they have the choice is why I can say that the money is available.

    You keep saying they don’t have a choice but they do even if the other option is bad.

    The only ones who are denied access to this money are people with no kids or whose kids graduated

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      This is like saying I have the choice to buy a Ferrari because there’s no law saying I can’t buy a Ferrari. That’s not what ‘choice’ means.

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        No it’s like saying you have an option to participate in x program but choose not to because of y. No one is stopping you from accessing x other than your choice which is exactly what these people are facing.

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            Now you’re just arguing in bad faith. The fact that they can choose to take the money means the program is available to all parents of school aged children.

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              How can they choose to take the money if they can’t choose to homeschool their kids? The only answer I can come up with based on what you are saying is that they are choosing to be poor.

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                The fact that they cannot take the money because of other circumstances does not mean they are being prevented from accessing it. Since they aren’t being prevented from accessing this money by anyone other than their own decisions you cannot claim the money is not available to them. It is available and they are choosing not to take it.

                It really seems like you do not understand what “available” means.

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                  The fact that they cannot take the money because of other circumstances does not mean they are being prevented from accessing it.

                  Huh? That is literally what that means.

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                    You need to look up what “available” means then because that is your confusion. There is milk available to me right now but my choice not to drink it because Im lactose intolerant does not impact the fact it is available to me.