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There are LOTS of problems with a voucher system. First of all, how do you determine who gets how much? If it's just a per child amount (as I've heard it discussed), it amounts to nothing more then income redistribution. If someone has more than the average amount of kids and makes/owns less than the average, they will make out pretty good. <br> <br> If the vouchers are too small, people will complain about them being useless. They will want enough voucher money to pay most or all of their tuition. Polticians will serve it up. <br> <br> There is also the same problem with healthcare. Giving people a chunk of cash to spend will distort market forces. Let's say that the average person would get $7k per kid, then you can rest assured that schools that charged $4k would quickly raise their tuition to $7k. Why not? The parent doesn't care.<br> <br> This is coming from a guy who struggles to put two kids through private school. I'm not rich, or even that well off. I chose to sacrifice. It wasn't a decision I arrived at easily, and each person should make those decision based on their own specific options. Introducing vouchers would be good for school choice, but I think that you would see the eventual rise of higher priced schools that performed better than the lower tier voucher priced schools. <br> <br> My experience with private school is that it has as much to do with the type of parents who are willing to sacrifice to put their kids in a top environment as with the teachers or the curriculum. Problem kids get kicked out, but there are very few that end up there, since most come from homes with parents who see school as free babysitting. The teachers don't have to spend hours of their day dealing with these distractions. I think you would lose that with a voucher system. There would be tons of new private schools that would pop up for no reason other than to suck the federal/state teat.... just like public schools now. Call me elitist if you like, but the biggest problem with most public schools is the kids/parents that just don't care.
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