While there are problems with allowing vouchers, I am *******totally******* for them.
The main problem is the inability of public school systems to expell students who behave badly. These “students” are a terrific drain on everybody.
However, the fact that children are forced to attend school, barring homeschooling which not everyone can do, means that we ***must*** educate them!
And the US public schools are failing in this. Scores in reading and math are utterly abysmal. We are forcing our children into schools for well over a decade and failing them.
Those students really need vouchers.
It would be one thing if Randy Weingarter were to acknowledge the problem and offer a plan to fix it, but she doesn’t—paying teachers more is not a plan to fix the problem.
There is no accountability and the system is a mess.
She is using that Newsweek definition of the word democracy: what Democrats believe.
I have long believed that the most consequential positive thing that could be accomplished on the political scene today would be the elimination of compulsory “education” laws and the closure of all public schools.