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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I am much more favorably disposed to school voucher programs if they give everyone enough money to move. Many programs are proposed with vouchers of insufficient value. The effect is to subsidize people who already send their kids to private school but only to enable a relatively small number of middle-class families who otherwise could not afford private tuitions to instead send their kids to another school.
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I don't buy into social engineering, but I think Reich's idea is an exception. Kids aren't responsible for what their folks can afford and educational parity is, in my view, a worthwhile endeavor. There should be no efforts toward economic parity, which is an offensive ideal for socialist types. But making us all smarter? Why not?
Problem is, would this program create a pile of lackluster schools milking govt money? Stated otherwise, would it be the same shit schooling under a different name?
