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We do pay entirely too much for an education system that doesn't work. I just do not see how vouchers are going to help the system itself. I am not a fan of the public school system, but we, as taxpayers, are paying a tremendous amount of money for something that is not working. We have this huge black hole that is literally bankrupting some and, yes, taking seniors homes, and instead of making it work, we are going to just leave it intact to continue to suck us dry and give big tax breaks and dollars to others. Why don't we just demand these schools begin to work. Do we not know the problems? If I were another country looking at this very wealthy and supposedly educated country and hear everyone say our education system doesn't work, so we are not going to change it, we are going to just start something new, and expensive as well, I would wonder just how intelligent that country could be.

How does giving some more of our money to people to send their children to private schools, help the system. These private schools, by the way, will eventually be under the same mandates as public schools. Anyone who thinks the government is going to allow tax dollars to go to anything and not control it just hasn't been looking for the past 30 years. IT may work really well for some people (who will fit the guidelines) for a short period of time. Then the government or special interest groups pushing the government will decide the private schools are not teaching enough tolerance and then the threats of no more tax dollars will be made to these schools.

Everytime I read anything about the voucher system, I hear it is to help low-income and inner city children. This sort of leaves many of us holding the bag and paying for both the horrible public schools and perhaps, for now, the better private schools, while possibly not being able to avail ourselves of the benefits.<

This sort of leaves many of us holding the bag and paying for both the horrible public schools and perhaps, for now, the better private schools, while possibly not being able to avail ourselves of the benefits.

Several others on FR have said this. Thanks for your post.

We do pay entirely too much for an education system that doesn't work. I just do not see how vouchers are going to help the system itself. I am not a fan of the public school system, but we, as taxpayers, are paying a tremendous amount of money for something that is not working. We have this huge black hole that is literally bankrupting some and, yes, taking seniors homes, and instead of making it work, we are going to just leave it intact to continue to suck us dry and give big tax breaks and dollars to others. Why don't we just demand these schools begin to work.

You are so right! We are over-paying for an education system that does not work. The cost ranges from about $8,000 to $15,000 in school districts in my Pennsylvania county. Much of that is due to the building of Taj Mahal type schools and elaborate salaries negotiated by the teachers' union. Too many of our schools have expensive under-used libraries (learning centers) manned by highly paid librarians. Olympic-sized swimming pools, elaborate sports stadiums, and elementary school gym teachers, some of whom are making $180,000 for 190 days work. The public school nurses earn more than do most hospital nurses and they have Christmas off. Giving families moderate ( read about $3,500) vouchers to send kids to private schools would keep them out of public schools. This means fewer high priced teachers and probably no more new buildings.

The reason residents are losing their homes is because of outrageous taxes. Vouchers would mean less kids in public schools. And it is important to note that it would get many deserving children out of a crummy learning environment.

I would support vouchers if for no other reason than because the greedy, deep-pocketed, left- wing, liberal, democrat teachers' union is against them.