EFA funding is discriminatory, a misguided handout, and another misuse of funds that are being ripped away from the public education system. The 350 percent, and possibly up to 500 percent of the poverty line would allow a family earning $150,000 or more access to free money. That is hardly a family living in poverty in dire need of a handout.

Based on this criteria of poverty, we could hand over free money to most families in New Hampshire, families that may really be struggling. I am certain that many families don’t come close to anywhere near even $80,000 income. How about using that misguided placement of money and support those same kids attending public school with that same level of funding and for the same reasons. Sometimes the rhetoric is deep and the obfuscation wide.

Paul Pelchat

Thornton