Why are school vouchers so bad? What am I missing? [View All]

[originalpckelly]

Why is it that I should be against them? I think the idea of public schools is to provide for education, and to provide an equal opportunity for people of all classes (haha) to receive an education. That way if people are from a poor family they have a chance to change their own economic condition.

What about vouchers would stop that? Wouldn't everyone get the same amount of funding? On top of that, parents could know directly how much money is spent on the education of their children, and whether a politician is playing a shell game (as they would receive a lower amount of money if a politician fucks up and lowers the amount of money spent on education.)

I don't think the rich will have very much impact upon the system. If they want to, they may pull their children out of public school right now and send them to private schools. (The only difference is that they would receive a few thousand dollars back instead of none. If this significantly reduces the amount of money in the system, a limit could be placed on eligibility for people earning a certain amount of money per year.)

I think the only real problem would be for-profit education companies. But they would have to compete against each other for a set amount of money, and if they don't charge less or the same as the alloted money, they simply wouldn't be able to conduct business.

Quite frankly, considering the 50/50 dropout/graduation rate in my own district, I think some kind of major change is needed. It isn't as if Denver doesn't spend enough money on education, it just doesn't seem to be very efficiently used.

I know that the crap set up under no child's behind left is completely ineffective.

Maybe vouchers would work. I don't know, maybe I haven't thought of everything, I would appreciate the help if you know of some big issue that I missed.