Can you convince 50% + one of the voters that they can schuck off government schools. How will you overcome it when the day care element is so convenient?
They know their kids are getting a substandard education and one that is morally corrupt. I find a rare parent who defends the system as is, but you won't get there from here without vouchers.
Tie them to inflation plus population growth to limit the cost and set them at 1/3 to 1/2 to cost of government schools. Watch government schools fail worse and save a bunch of kids. That is the way.
The argument you make here works for libertarians and smart conservatives, how do you convince the mushy middle?
You will never overcome a public school system that includes before and after school day care, not for single moms and struggling families, but in CA, where public education is often as bad as it gets, even in upper middle class neighborhoods, many former stay at home moms work just to send their kids to private schools. I know one man that served in the Naval Air Reserve for twenty years and used the money to send his five kids to Catholic schools. People are waking up to what is going on, but it is far too slowly. I just wish that I had taken a more active role in the education of my kids. I knew what was happening, but didn’t know what to do about it, except complain.
For far too many people vouchers are the endgame. I'd take vouchers as a step toward eliminating socialist schools. But I'm interested in getting more voucher supporters to understand that a voucher system is still a socialist system.
The socialized medicine debate is a great teaching tool. The arguments in favor of switching from a capitalist system to socialized medicine are the same arguments for keeping socialized schooling.
As more people see this, the number of people who understand that socialized schools have no more place in a free society than socialized medicine does.
Nothing will change over night. But every person who understands that the private sector can take care of education, the closer we are to returning to a capitalist schooling system.
For far too many people vouchers are the endgame. I'd take vouchers as a step toward eliminating socialist schools. But I'm interested in getting more voucher supporters to understand that a voucher system is still a socialist system.
The socialized medicine debate is a great teaching tool. The arguments in favor of switching from a capitalist system to socialized medicine are the same arguments for keeping socialized schooling.
As more people see this, the number of people who understand that socialized schools have no more place in a free society than socialized medicine does.
Nothing will change over night. But every person who understands that the private sector can take care of education, the closer we are to returning to a capitalist schooling system.