Most voucher systems would give the parent half of the amount the state dedicates to each student. The other half would still go to the public school.
It still seems like a pretty good deal. We'd be paying the public school $8000 a year to "not" teach our kids, instead of the current $16,000 we pay them to "not" teach them. It would be something like a protection racket, paying them in effect to leave us alone and stay out of the way.
At $8000 it would be well worth it. Instead of paying them to fail, we pay them to go away.
I have to tell you, I find it almost ironic that here we have an article decrying how easy teachers have been on students, not correcting their spelling, word usage mistakes for YEARS in order that they don't hurt feelings, damage self-esteem and all that. Yet let me attempt to correct another poster's misspells, pronoun error, not a probable typo but actual and in fact grammatical error on one of these internet forums and I am labeled pedantic, *grammar-cop*, or some other derrogative name. All because I wish to note the difference between imply and infer, affect and effect, inform others that using *second of all* after *first of all* is ungrammatical ... don't get me started on *irregardless* ....
Academics aren't the only ones who've KO'd grammar, I'm sorry to say. :(