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Are those school worse then say schools in the worst inner cities then America?
And you are look looking at this from market/consumer stand point.
If there was a soda that gave everyone who drank it a bad case of diarrhea, would anybody buy it? maybe a very very few, but other then that a vast, vast majority would not.
As well as the student/parents would have the ability to take there funds to another school if they found that the school, was not properly educating their children.
Some things just don't work out well that way, ie: education and health.
Improve skills and abilities? Not sure that will happen though, after all good/bad teachers are what they are anyway.
And if the teacher just panders to the kids, where has his authority and ability to lead actually gone?
I hate to break it to you but education and health are commodities.. you are the customer you have the final say, and you have all the power, the power of choice, how do you get the best deal for you money..
students are not customers, there parents are, both of them have the most to gain and the most to lose...
This is the point exactly. Private schools don't have the goal of educating everyone.
Public schools DO have that goal. The good ones discriminate by their very nature, they have no intention of educating everyone.
So defunding public schools obviously is going to hurt the kids who would continue attending public schools even with a voucher program.
If you make the voucher program too "strong," then you're either going to have the private schools turn away vouchers because they don't want an influx of indigent kids
If you make the voucher program too "weak", then it's going to pull a subset of "better" public school kids into private schools, leaving behind the public schools completely, defunding them and removing all their best students.
So regardless of how you slice it, you're hurting indigent kids by issuing vouchers.
wont we be hurting a greater number of kids by not issuing vouchers?
and they can have any goal they wish, it does not mean that they can/will achieve that goal..
In principle I'm not against vouchers but there must be strict standards because not just many but most religious schools teach utter nonsense which amounts to nothing more than religious disinformation. Public tax money should never be used for such garbage thus the need for standards including strict science based standards.
I am sorry that is protected under the bill of rights, you know freedom of religion.
Because private schools are not better which leaves no reason to underfund public schools.
"Contrary to popular belief, we can find no evidence that private schools actually increase student performance....Instead, it appears that private schools simply have higher percentages of students who would perform well in any environment based on their previous performance and background."
Private schools aren't doing something better. They have better students and when you skim the top like that, you're going to look better than what is left. If vouchers resulted in more students attending private schools, you'd just skim more off the top. I don't think that would be good for either public or private schools.
Because private schools are not better which leaves no reason to underfund public schools.
"Contrary to popular belief, we can find no evidence that private schools actually increase student performance....Instead, it appears that private schools simply have higher percentages of students who would perform well in any environment based on their previous performance and background."
Private schools aren't doing something better. They have better students and when you skim the top like that, you're going to look better than what is left. If vouchers resulted in more students attending private schools, you'd just skim more off the top. I don't think that would be good for either public or private schools.
really so private schools are not better, they just have better students?
Why shouldn't they be treated as customers? If parents can shop around for the best school that fits the needs of their children this would be bad for what reason?
There is one thing that is being overlooked here, with a voucher system you're going to introduce competition amongst schools for students and the funding they bring with them.
Why shouldn't they be treated as customers? If parents can shop around for the best school that fits the needs of their children this would be bad for what reason?
There is one thing that is being overlooked here, with a voucher system you're going to introduce competition amongst schools for students and the funding they bring with them.
Because they aren't customers. Customers choose whether or not they want to buy a product. Many kids would choose not to go to school at all if they were really customers. They are being forced to attend school. I'm not sure what they are but they're not customers. I can't think of an analogy where someone is forced to buy a service (even mandatory auto insurance doesn't count because you can opt to not have a car).
When you're forcing someone to "buy" something they don't want, why would you expect them to choose the best product?
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