Is it time for private school vouchers in Montgomery County?

[Anonymous]

Would you take your child out of MCPS if there was a private school voucher program so Montgomery County residents had school choice?

[Anonymous]

yes please!!!!

[Anonymous]

I for one do think that MCPS would be more responsive to parents if they had any incentive to keep students in their school system.

[Anonymous]

No, as most private schools are $50K, so even $10K barely makes a dent. They aren't going to have vouchers so keep dreaming. And, we don't have enough private schools with space to make that work.

[Anonymous]

Privates are recruiting again.

[Anonymous]

Great way to shift wealth towards the wealthy while reducing effectiveness for the rest by decimating economies of scale. It's a win-win for the self-centered, with the added bonuses of 1) being able to note the resulting degradation of public education as a support for the "need" to continue voucher programs and 2) being able to subsidize single-view religious teaching.

But, hey, there's always one or two edge cases from the rest to whom they can point as benefitting. "See, in America, anyone can get ahead. Let the invisible hand of the market do its thing!"

What a crock...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Privates are recruiting again.

There was a 300% increase in private school applications in 2021. Most full pay. They don’t have to recruit. This is a desperate post from a publics parent who can’t afford to leave their school zone. No private wants to be deluged with the 160,000 applications of students fleeing MCPS.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Privates are recruiting again.

There was a 300% increase in private school applications in 2021. Most full pay. They don’t have to recruit. This is a desperate post from a publics parent who can’t afford to leave their school zone. No private wants to be deluged with the 160,000 applications of students fleeing MCPS.

Furthermore even with a voucher you're not going to be able to pay for Sidwell/GDS or the other big ones, their tution is 45,000 a year

[Anonymous]

Vouchers would, by far, benefit people who can already afford private schools the most. Some people like me, who are willing to have our taxes support public schools for the common good, will be deeply incensed if our tax dollars are spent to decimate the quite decent public school system in order to support religious schools and the wealthy.

[Anonymous]

This topic always makes me laugh. What is the most liberal place on the planet? Many would say the Netherlands. Legalized pot. Prostitution, legal. Free needles for addicts. And yep - direct pay (vouchers) for parents to choose their schools. The takoma Park crowd never takes liberalism to its logical conclusion with education. If you simply voucher the 16,000 per student MCPS supposedly pays to educate our kids in a supersized, filthy school (here’s looking at you Wootton) kids would largely be better off. But it proves MCPS is a Democratic Party jobs program more than an education system. Hard to fathom 3 billion a year to fund such a poor excuse of an education system but here we are. Public schools need to exist but be much smaller and more responsive. Never going to happen with powers that be in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This topic always makes me laugh. What is the most liberal place on the planet? Many would say the Netherlands. Legalized pot. Prostitution, legal. Free needles for addicts. And yep - direct pay (vouchers) for parents to choose their schools. The takoma Park crowd never takes liberalism to its logical conclusion with education. If you simply voucher the 16,000 per student MCPS supposedly pays to educate our kids in a supersized, filthy school (here’s looking at you Wootton) kids would largely be better off. But it proves MCPS is a Democratic Party jobs program more than an education system. Hard to fathom 3 billion a year to fund such a poor excuse of an education system but here we are. Public schools need to exist but be much smaller and more responsive. Never going to happen with powers that be in the county.

Post a list of private, secular schools that kids can attend for 16,000.

[Anonymous]

No. DCs have done well in public thus far. Possibly looking at specialized private program for my youngest but wouldn’t want or need public funding to subsidize the tuition.

[Anonymous]

As a parent with special needs, I am frustrated that MCPS keeps not implementing his IEP. There are private schools that have staff that would be able to provide what MCPS agrees my child needs. MCPS will not approve private placement at public expense without a huge legal fight. I would take a school voucher in a heartbeat so my child could receive an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Privates are recruiting again.

There was a 300% increase in private school applications in 2021. Most full pay. They don’t have to recruit. This is a desperate post from a publics parent who can’t afford to leave their school zone. No private wants to be deluged with the 160,000 applications of students fleeing MCPS.

Haha made up statistics.. so DCUM.