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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
"Vouchers would be a step in the right direction."

I agree but vouchers will never just happen. It will take total commitment to eliminating public education. Vouchers would mean the end of public schools. If people, by choice, could receive a voucher for private schools instead of paying school taxes they would do so in numbers that would financially break the government system. It would also make it obvious to those that don't have kids that they should not have to pay property taxes to pay for schools when the aren't using the system.

If we just put an end to government involvement in education all the other problems will solve themselves. Good teachers and schools will be paid well and bad teachers won't be teachers. Perpetual property taxes to pay for bloated government waste can be eliminated and be a huge step for the reinstatement of the right to own private property.

30 posted on 06/07/2012 10:03:15 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

-—people, by choice, could receive a voucher for private schools instead of paying school taxes they would do so in numbers that would financially break the government system——

Govt school spending averages around $10k/child/yr. Higher in cities.$200k/yr/classroom of 20.

Most school choice plans include vouchers valued at half the per-pupil govt school expenditure. The amount is sufficient to cover the tuition of an inexpensive private school.

Govt schools would lose many students, at first. But competition would force improvement. The resulting system would look like the private college/state university system.

This system would be stable, and could last indefinitely. It would be very difficult to transition to a truly free market. But the possibility of jumping from our current system to a free market is non-existent.


31 posted on 06/07/2012 11:14:06 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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