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IIRC the prior conversation the voucher system is supposed to enable people to choose winners and losers. Whether people should be able to choose where to put t
by t0suj4 5y ago
IIRC the prior conversation the voucher system is supposed to enable people to choose winners and losers. Whether people should be able to choose where to put their children to get education is non-negotiable.
Vouchers simply take away the burden of tuition from parents. Whether it is the best solution, that's debatable.
If the alternative is that all children in a neighborhood must stay in poorly ran school then the voucher system is slightly better.
It is clear that there will be more space for an industry of fraudulently ran private schools. But that will hardly change from what there is now. Whether the bad schools will survive depends on how much parents care about their children.
- TimPC 5y agoVouchers don’t simply do anything though. They need to make assumptions when they decide how much to give a student and when those assumptions are made badly they can do lots of damage. There isn’t one voucher system that’s better or worse than a public system it’s a complex interaction. If some children leave a poorly run school by a program that steals money from special needs students to subsidize their tuition up to the amount a private school charges I don’t think that’s a moral trade.