[upchuck]

Bolick pointed out that the scholarships will be competitive - and added that any child who would qualify for private-school choice under this proposal would have already suffered for six years.

Six years? That's one half of the child's government schooling.

That doesn't seem right.

If I had a child about to enter the first grade at a school that had already failed for six years, I'd want the option of a voucher so he wouldn't have to attend the failing school at all.

[Izzy Dunne]

If I had a child about to enter the first grade at a school that had already failed for six years, I'd want the option of a voucher so he wouldn't have to attend the failing school at all.

The way I read it, that's exactly what would happen.

It's the SCHOOL that they're counting the six years on, not the child.