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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
I have long been a proponant of the school voucher system. Public Education is nothing but a bureaucratic meat grinder, and there is no incentive for change.
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Vouchers are nice, but you still have problems. The first problem is that it doesn't address the issue of failing schools. Sure, some students will qualify for the vouchers and enroll into a quality private school, but the ones who don't qualify are stuck in a crap school getting a crap education and now have a crap future.
This unintentionally creates the haves (those who can escape the bad schools) and the have nots (those who can't escape). School vouchers does nothing to address the issue of have nots, unless everybody gets a voucher, but then you're just shuffling all of the problems the public schools have onto the private schools. Of course, they can probably raise tuition to compensate, but then that puts the burden on parents who are paying for tuition out of pocket. Government grants might help, but at that point, you have to ask yourself, why spend all this money to help a private school when that money can be spent fixing the public ones?
Vouchers are a good idea doomed by the law of unintended consequences.