It’s not that different. The only difference is k-12 is required. University isn’t.
zantax
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No, they will still have the schools you think everyone should be in.
Just with a lot less funding. No biggie
zantax
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Yes, less funding, for fewer students.
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tnt
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The students that will use the vouchers are the cheapest to educate. The ones left behind will be the more expensive ones to educate, making the public school less funded per the needs of the student population.
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zantax
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Fewer students, easier to fund at higher rates. In any case no amount of money is going to educate someone who doesn’t care about education because their parents don’t care about it.
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WuWei
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If they like their public school… the can keep their public school.
Why the language?
But public schools will also still be getting a disproportionate portion of the funding.
Just spitballing numbers, but let’s say they’re 25k homes in an area paying property taxes, and there’s 12.5k students….
Say 30% pick up their vouchers and go to a private school. Pulling that funding.
The public schools funding went down by ~16% even though it lost 30% of its students.
It now has more $$ per student than it had before.
Why? Because all the people without kids, or whose kids have graduated, are still paying into it.
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I’ll also add. Our schools problem isn’t a money problem.
We spend more per student, and get worse results, than any other country on the planet.
The money isn’t the problem. The problem is the system.
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The problem is mostly the parents in many cases. No discipline and don’t care if their kids are educated or not.
At least with vouchers parents that do care can get their kids somewhere conducive to learning.
Minus the disrupters, gangbangers, etc in their particular school.
p.s. Minus indoctrination as well.
This is absolutely true. NJ for example spends over $20,000 on average per student.
I did.
The cost of the private school is the variable change.
zantax
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Err the problem is the parents. I got a perfectly fine education at a very crappy school, because I wanted to learn. About maybe 10% of us did. All a motivated student needs is access to a good library. Or today, the internet.
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zantax
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And bullying. My youngest was overweight, even though she was a fairly decent swimmer and in sports, she just loved carbs. Not giant but not fashionably thin. Public school mean girls attacked, moved her to a private catholic school that featured well mannered kind kids and she was fine.
Suddenly she was no longer excluded from her peers because of the way she looked.
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Ceasar
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I want to abolish all government schools and unionized government employees. Also I want to abolish property taxes. Make all schools private or home school. They way the government schools are run is depraved and grooming. Most of the teachers are nothing but evil as well.
Also no government funding or loans for universities.
WuWei
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No, you didn’t. School choice is the variable. You assume the price of school will go up commiserate. It probably will in some or many cases. Why wouldn’t a whole new strata of schools come into being?
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