Many of the states that have proposed "vouchers", are not trying to eliminate public education, only provide an escape route for low income families who have a child who maintains a certain academic excellence. The students that attend schools that are too busy running what amounts too and resembles a juvenile detention center, than a place of education.
These so-called vouchers are actually grants for students who have shown they can maintain an acceptable grade level, under these horrendous conditions and are clearly recognized as someone who is there to learn and should be allowed a positive learning environment. They would be allowed to use these grants to most likely attend upper class public schools! Of course the option would be there to attend secular, or private academies, but it is unlikely the parents could make up the financial difference to attend, or that many of these private entities, would meet the required standard.
The problem is that by making these grants available, the politicians of the state would also be admitting that many of their schools are to say the least, failures!!! No career politician, will ever admit that he/she was/is a complete and total failure on any issue, not if they want to remain a career politician anyhow!!
The alternative, the one SS is referring too, is to stop what they feel is another attempt at affirmative action, or anything that would give the peasants, an opprotunity to be competitive!!! This program will be available to all students, who are currently attending public school, or have already been attending private or secular academies. The problem is most of them are prepay programs, that will only accommodate those who have the money to spend on private schooling already. You pay for the education, and a voucher will be returned to the government upon completion of a semester or two, and the parents will then obtain a refund. How many good low income students who attend the failed public schools will be able to come up with $12,500-25,000, in advance, so they can get their refund months later??? What if they have more than one child???
Another interesting aspect is that more, parents who have there children in the academically successful, public schools, knowing they will be reimbursed, will "use" the vouchers as another advantage, to send their upper class kids to private schools. As the attendance dwindles in public schools, the education level will continue to decline, and they will eventually have to close or become another of the failures in our system!!!
There is absolutely no, evidence that private schools are any better at teaching the general population, than that of the public school systems. None!! Private schools do not have to deal with the general population, and most depend on strict enrollment criteria, which requires a maintained level of academic excellence, and the most important requirement is that your parents must be loaded!!! If the public schools could adopt these standards none of them wuld be failures either, cause only smart kids would attend!?! Sorry, but this sounds like welfare for rich people to me!!!
Me, I personally think they need to fix the problem, the public school system!!! Neither dems or repubs want this problem fixed, they want to continue to exploit and extort from it though!!! You want to provide grants for public school students, for their individual academic achievement, I am for it!!! But any program that is specifically be used by the rich, who already attend private institutions, please, stop!!!
Buck S. N.
