Really? I think taxpayer dollars should be focused on an outcome (creating a cohesive society of high performance critical thinkers able to solve problems indep

Really? I think taxpayer dollars should be focused on an outcome (creating a cohesive society of high performance critical thinkers able to solve problems independently and in groups would be my outcome measure). With that being said, I see quite a lot of problems with the public system (suboptimal teacher provision partially driven by union pushing for things that help their union members at the expense of students, weird administrator to infrastructure spending ratios, weird far left ideologies being pushed on kids that I think are far outside school responsibility into parent responsibility, etc) and vouchers seem like a reasonable way to address this by taking funding out of the system to places that can perform better. To me, it seems more like a failure of voucher design than anything. The solution is probably to make the voucher worth up to 80 or 90% of what it costs to teach the kid in the public system (because if it doesn't cost less why are we doing it?) and force any school receiving a voucher to not charge more than a small amount more than the voucher, make the same restrictions on religion present in public enforced in private, etc. Declining public enrollment is a problem for crappy teachers and their union more than anything, it's not something to be concerned about. Fire the unneeded teachers and administrators to save costs and it should sort itself out medium term.