Private schools only because they keep the riffraff out. School choice is going to completely ruin private schools by letting them in.
The problem now is the government takes your school money then tells you which school to go to. I’ve paid some $40,000 in school taxes, but if I want to send the kids to another school I have to abandon that money and earn another $40,000.
IMO, this is a conundrum for vouchers. I would hope private schools would be non-union, non-tenure. use 'old' math and English teaching methods, not be sports-driven, have strict behavior and discipline rules and enforcement and teach only in English. Let there be specialized bi-lingual schools or tutoring services.
Private schools KICK THE RIFFRAFF OUT!
Repeat this to yourself a few times.
“Private schools only because they keep the riffraff out. School choice is going to completely ruin private schools by letting them in.”
That’s not necessarily true - no school will be required to take vouchers, and there’s no reason that the riff-raff that has to be allowed to ruin government schools, will be protected to do the same in private schools. That is a construct of the left - called ‘mainstreaming’, and private schools will have nothing to do with that - they will kick out the troublemakers.
As to school choice overall - our system is TERRIBLY BROKEN simply because 90% of the country either doesn’t have the resources to get their kids out of public schools, or doesn’t set that as a priority (meaning they THINK they don’t have the resources, which is no different than not having the resources). Only when these parents are empowered to get their kids out, will the monopoly start to be broken.
So, yes, there is a good part of the Republican Establishment that agrees with you - keep the government out of private education, even if it means that 90% of our kids have to suffer through today’s government schools, but most here don’t think that’s good for the country overall, and we want to see government schools DEFEATED, once and for all...and if it potentially, possibly, means some level of risk to private schools, so be it.
BINGO The money follows the child (ESSA) child goes into a building using fed money-school must meet Title IX regs...etc..you get the picture.
On top of that ESSA unleashed a plethora of psychological services.
Lamar Alexander if he backs it you know its trouble
Once vouchers are available, schools will open that can meet the needs of the riffraff and they will do a better job of it than the public schools.
But what do I know, we home schooled for 13 years.
Doubtful. My sister sent her children to Catholic schools. High school ran her about $8,000 a year each. Based on the funding formula in the bill itself I doubt that the vouchers will be even a third of that.
School choice only works if you can afford it and if you can get your kids there.