I’m just interested since you have worked at both public and private schools. How do you feel about school choice where local governments will give students vouchers to attend private schools. As you stated public schools do not discipline students. Do you feel this could infiltrate and bring down standards at private schools? Will private schools be forced to accept as full payment what ever the voucher is while students already enrolled will have to pay full price? I have seen disastrous results in private school where this has happened.
> How do you feel about school choice where local governments will give students vouchers to attend private schools. <
At one time I was against school choice. America is a very diverse country, and as such a melting pot is needed. That melting pot is the public schools. The Italian kid sits next to the Polish kid who sits next to the black kid.
The private school where I worked was wonderful. But it most certainly was not a melting pot.
I have since changed my opinion about school choice. City public schools are absolutely beyond redemption. They cannot be fixed. So school choice is necessary to save the many decent city kids.
But with government vouchers will come government demands and government regulations. Will that turn a good private school into something resembling a failed public school?
I don’t know. But it’s worth a try anyway.