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Some private schools are pretty horrible and some public schools are truly outstanding. Each has the opportunity to be something special, something worthy of our youth, but it's hit-and-miss. That underfunded elementary school I mentioned was one of those outstanding public schools, but that doesn't mean the teachers weren't underpaid, the textbooks weren't out of date and the place wasn't falling apart.
We need both vouchers and increased funding (yes, I'm a raging liberal that's okay with vouchers, so long as the private schools aren't teaching about how 6000 years ago the Earth was created by a white man with a beard). Allocate 8-10% of the Willravel education plan funds for vouchers if you want, so long as the public system isn't left in the dust. That's the problem liberals have with vouchers: we don't want underfunded public education so everyone will go private. Near or total privatization of education is pretty evil.
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