How about a tax credit of $3000 per non-public-schooled child under age 18? This way the government isn't investing money in private education, it's just recognizing that you're benefiting the system.
correct. tuition tax credits are preferable. Keeping the status quo is easier than innovating.If vouchers are going to siphon money from government schools why isn't the same true in higher education? I don't hear state college professors running around crying about Pell grant("government dollars") money "unfairly" being used to attend St.Thomas,Gustavus,St.Johns or other private religiously affiliated schools. What happened to the imaginary wall of church and state there?
Since government doesn't create wealth and only consumes it, how can it give parents back what was always theirs anyway? Part of the beauty of being an American is choices.Look in the yellow pages. Thirty-one flavors or thirty thousand attorneys to choose from.Variety is a good thing.Some may choose for proximity,some for class size,some for shared belief systems,or a class for gifted mathematicians.Why is choice and competition considered good in everything except education?