Toronado3800
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I am getting more skeptical on this the more I think about it. Then again it is just me and the internet here so set me straight.
How would a dream voucher system work?
Lets say I am in year 5 of the voucher system and we have eliminated public schools. Between my home and work there are 10 grade schools in the area.
- They range in cost from $4500 a year to $13,500.
So the cheapest school is going to fill up with kids from family's which can't afford better. They'll get the cruddiest education and be surrounded by kids from similar families.
The most cost effective couple schools are going to fill up.
One is going to go out of business at an inopportune time (it happens, look at the for profit colleges we have and the closing private schools). Maybe the state will bail it out as its too important to fail mid year. That will be great.
The unstable or non-cost effective schools are going to get the stragglers.
The rich kids are going to largely be at the most expensive ones which if tradition holds will be pretty good schools. Maybe those will offer a scholarship, especially if the state gives them tax breaks for doing so and our kids can get in. (EDIT: with the rich getting a tax credit or whatever there won't be that little bit of incentive for them to actually use the money the state taxes them for education and not pick a private school)
How are we gonna run sign ups? The state forces the last Monday in July is sign up day every year? You just pay ahead of time like for funerals in the hopes of saving a spot for your 1 year old?
What if the cheap schools fill up and that is all I can afford?
Will we have a way of forcing any of these schools to take special needs kids who can't cost effectively be taught?
No one is going to want to send their kids to where "they" (blacks, latinos, native americans, whoever you pick on locally) largely go.
I presume my old neighbor still have to pay taxes to be given to me to help me pick an expensive school?
Are we gonna Standardize test these kids to let them go onto the next grade? Otherwise some entrepreneur is going to give all his Senior's A's to get them college scholarships and the school a better reputation in the community. (something similar happened at a local nursing school where apparently they graduated everyone and hoped the state tests caught the undeserving)
What else am I not thinking about? There are positives, right?
How would a dream voucher system work?
Lets say I am in year 5 of the voucher system and we have eliminated public schools. Between my home and work there are 10 grade schools in the area.
- They range in cost from $4500 a year to $13,500.
So the cheapest school is going to fill up with kids from family's which can't afford better. They'll get the cruddiest education and be surrounded by kids from similar families.
The most cost effective couple schools are going to fill up.
One is going to go out of business at an inopportune time (it happens, look at the for profit colleges we have and the closing private schools). Maybe the state will bail it out as its too important to fail mid year. That will be great.
The unstable or non-cost effective schools are going to get the stragglers.
The rich kids are going to largely be at the most expensive ones which if tradition holds will be pretty good schools. Maybe those will offer a scholarship, especially if the state gives them tax breaks for doing so and our kids can get in. (EDIT: with the rich getting a tax credit or whatever there won't be that little bit of incentive for them to actually use the money the state taxes them for education and not pick a private school)
How are we gonna run sign ups? The state forces the last Monday in July is sign up day every year? You just pay ahead of time like for funerals in the hopes of saving a spot for your 1 year old?
What if the cheap schools fill up and that is all I can afford?
Will we have a way of forcing any of these schools to take special needs kids who can't cost effectively be taught?
No one is going to want to send their kids to where "they" (blacks, latinos, native americans, whoever you pick on locally) largely go.
I presume my old neighbor still have to pay taxes to be given to me to help me pick an expensive school?
Are we gonna Standardize test these kids to let them go onto the next grade? Otherwise some entrepreneur is going to give all his Senior's A's to get them college scholarships and the school a better reputation in the community. (something similar happened at a local nursing school where apparently they graduated everyone and hoped the state tests caught the undeserving)
What else am I not thinking about? There are positives, right?