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Originally posted by Superbelt
No it wouldn't.
Voucher systems would only give money from Title 10. That amount of money amounts to 1,100 dollars per student. The rest of the education money comes from the state. Title 10 is meant to level the playing field between different school districts around the country.
That 1,100 will be enticing and effective for upper middle class people who can afford the average 7,500 a year it costs to send a kid to private school. It will also be money given to families who already send their kids to public schools. But for everyone else, the middle class and poor kids, that won't amount to more than a drop in the bucket. It will take a big chunk of that 'evening out money' out of the poor schools who really need it though. And that only makes our schools worse. "No Child Left Behind" is just the first step in fully erasing the american public school system.
Yes I know, OT, if anyone wants to take it further lets make a new topic.
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#1 No reason it can't be a state voucher system as well.
#2 Whats this middle class can't afford bullshit? I am currently sitting in my office in a VERY middle class area, with the tiny post WWII housing, with blue collar jobs and 1000's of them go to private schools. You tell these people that 1100 wouldn't matter, but I'd be sure to do it in some place public.
They make sacrifices to afford it in order to give their children the best education possible, and the best future possible. I’m sometimes wonder what view of America you have, and why it seems so far out of wack with reality.
