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There is absolutely no, evidence that private schools are any better at teaching the general population, than that of the public school systems. None!!
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I didn't say that they couldn't provide a better learning environment??? I said;
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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 would be failures either, cause only smart kids would attend!?
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Most of the kids there are there with strong parental control and they do not have the disadvantage of accepting everyone!!!
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In any event, it still would not matter, since Parents could still opt to stay with the Public system.
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But would they???
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The end result is that they pay twice for education; once through taxes and once through private schools. This system will be more fair in that it will credit them back the tax dollars they are not using.
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You have an interesting concept of what taxes are??? You do realize that most of the taxes gathered for the purpose of public education, are from people without school age children??? What would be the purpose of collecting taxes only to see to it that certain people get their money back??? Kinda defeats the whole purpose doesn't it???
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They arnt allowed to opt out of the Public school system.
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Sure they can they just have to be able to pay for it??? Same as a poor person??? The point is that majority of people with school age children, rarely pay $25,000 annually in taxes, the majority are lucky to make that much annually!
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The Voucher program would give them that option. You are supporting my argument.
Vouchers give opportunities to poor people they would not otherwise have.
Vouchers are more fair to wealthy people as well.
Who loses?
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If the public schools are abandoned, by those who can now pay the extra to send their kids to private schools, the poor will only have the option of staying in a system that has less money, and a larger percentage of problem children to contend with!!! If they cannot go to better public school then what is the point, of having a voucher system???
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Why will it cripple it further?
They take money out of the system, but then the system no longer has to support them. So it is a wash. Public schools arnt losing anything they didnt have before.
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Less students=less money=poorer facilities=worse teachers=poor learning environment!!! This won't help poor kids get a better education, it assures they will be right back where we started??
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It really sounds to me like you want to use the current system to punish the rich for being rich...
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Yes, bad rich, bad rich!!! I just don't see the benefit of a blanket voucher system. The original idea was to help underprivileged kids that have shown academic excellence, and deserve to be allowed to attend a school with a better environment, than the juvenile prisons our politicians have the audacity to call schools!!!
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THATS your defense for Public Education?
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No that's why our schools are a failure to the people who depend on them???
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So having one choice is better than having two choices? Is that your logic?
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Uhhh, NO!!!
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Because if you have two choices, chances are one is going to be better than the other. That is how competition works.
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If you can afford it, yes if not then there is no choice other than public!
If public schools are really better, you have nothing to worry about. No one has suggested vouchers should be mandatory. Stay in public school if you want.
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If public schools are really better, you have nothing to worry about.
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Never said they were better, and for most it will be their only choice, voucher or not!! If they would fix them, we wouldn't need vouchers.
SS give me until tomorrow, I want to read more on the Colorado proposal!!
Buck S. N.
