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We have given a school voucher program in DC only one year to operate. The results are about the same as those that one would see without vouchers. Voucher programs need at least two years to show results. Parents are happy with the voucher program.
Therefore, voucher programs are failures.
No, you are not sniffing glue. These are the actual arguments being made against the voucher program.
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Actually, you are right on... If they would just give these kids the opportunity to excel instead of catering to the politics, they just might have a chance (slim in the public education system, but at least a chance). It seems that just like other leftist policies, better for me than thee...
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So a program that (at worst) achieves the same results, that makes parents more satisfied, and does so for about 57% of the cost, is a failure? It must take a more subtle and sophisticated mind than mine to understand such a view of the world.
Says it all for me.
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Sorry, this is OT, but I'm hoping for a quick answer.
Why not just pay private schools per head? Parents choose which school to go to, the kids go there, and then the school gets taxpayer money. What's with the little "voucher" thing in the middle?
Of course, you couldn't send the kids to just any school (Dr. Wacko's School For The Soon-To-Be-Insane, for instance). The government would have to approve it in some way, right? There are government-dictated qualifications that must be met.
But at that point, aren't we just operating the same way as the public school system, except by a different name?
Or why not just stop taxing people so much? We'll tax, then we'll give it back to you, and then you give it to the school. Why not just cut taxes, and then have you give directly to the school?
to allow a parent to choose a school that has a religious affiliation. Direct payment from the government to a religious school would, in the eyes of the SC, violate the establishment clause.
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That's still the same money. It's just laundered a little.
It seems like the better solution would be for parents to pay less tax, then charge them a fee for school. Go to the secular government school if you want, or go to the private school.
This weird money flow makes it look like someone's trying to pull a fast one.
to get the kids to an educational level that befits their ages. I really believe until public education is treated as a business where you can pick and choose the schools and the teachers need to really do their jobs we will continue to put out from the schools students who are not capable of moving on to college. The DC public schools with their per capita spending should have the best schools in the nation however because of unions and corruption they have one of the worst.