....as long as they could afford it.
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Why is education special? Why not nationalize grocery stores, farms, clothing, shoes, houses?
No one in America needs to go homeless or hungry. If we take care of the above in the free market with vouchers ( food stamps and Section 8 housing) we could do the same with the poor.
In my opinion private vouchers could eventually educate the poor. But...Surely you don’t think that Americans are stingy do you?
It sort of reminds me of the way students were educated (or not) in the South 100 years ago...
IOW, if it had worked really well I doubt we'd have adopted the present system...but everything in education seems to swing from one extreme to the other, even if the "middle ground" works best, so maybe it's time for another swing.