This is why I oppose school vouchers. I don’t want my parish school to accept any federal funding at all. I know all the arguements about how vouchers will safeguard against federal involement...I also know that the government can never be trusted when it comes to our freedom.
You are right because the government thinks of vouchers as THEIR money that they are distributing. And they think that the state has plenary authority over education. A proper education is what they say it is. The most neutral form of voucher would be to let families apply their school taxes to the school of their choice rather than receive it from the government. I ,for instance, could give my school tax to be used for the tuition of my grandson. But the educational establishment would die raher than allow this.