ERD50
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And the huge increase in taxes would be painful! Right now, the private and parochial schools take care of themselves and taxes pay for the public schools. In your voucher proposal, all the kids who are currently private pays in the private systems would recieve vouchers at tax payers expense. No thanks........
OK, I'm sure the people sending their kids to private school now would be in favor of it!
I don't know, what % of students go to private schools in the US? Would it be such a big shift? Private high schools around me are pretty few and far between. The overall efficiency improvements might pay to pick up the extra students covered by vouchers? Maybe?
Of course, any of these private schools could still run bake sales for above-and-beyond expenses. Yes, there might not be the same incentive - it would be 'we paid you, now provide the services'. No 'guilt' pressure to help out. But it could be done, I think. For example, if School A and School B both provided very similar education and amenities, they could say - hey let's have a car wash to raise money for a new whatever, and then we will have that whatever, and the other school won't. Yeah team!
-ERD50