School vouchers in Virginia?
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Anonymous
| How much does the state pay for schools now on a per student basis? I thought most of this is coming from local funds. |
Anonymous
Diversity, equity, and inclusion sounds great but it can also be a recipe for focusing only on superficial changes and ignoring bigger issues. For example, if a school board wants to spend months obsessing over who attends a single magnet school, while ignoring learning loss at 200 other schools, it doesn't always go over well. Or, if it wants to devote many hours to discussing a brand-new "social justice" academy program at one school, but ignores severe overcrowding at other schools, that may raise eyebrows. When big challenges get ignored because feel-good DEI initiatives take up all the bandwidth, many parents who otherwise would support public schools start to disinvest. They pull their kids out and send them to private schools, or they continue to send their kids to public school but start to support alternatives such as charters or vouchers to what their public school systems are currently offering. |
Anonymous
I don’t want to subsidize private school kids. |
Anonymous
I would hope that there aren’t a bunch of idiots who support vouchers in VA, but then again there were a bunch who voted for that Trumphumper Youngkin. |
Anonymous
Not much, but the state can direct counties to spend their own funds on vouchers |
Anonymous
It depends. Some districts get a larger percentage of their budgets covered by the state while others receive a smaller percentage. For example, about 23% of Fairfax’s budget comes from state funding. For some districts it’s flipped and the state is providing the majority of the funding. |
Anonymous
All of these things promote widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. More money and focus goes on getting the most out of the privileged schools for the better students and the students from wealthier families. The lower/main schools get less funding, fewer perks and benefits and the average and below average children, plus the lower income children get left behind with weaker schools, lowering graduation rates, and lower achievement rates. Having a few select schools like the current scenario provides opportunities for those truly gifted children, but still protects the interests of the majority of students. |
Anonymous
Not to mention private schools in these areas are already at capacity with paying families. What slots would actually be available for someone to use with a voucher? I could see vouchers working in more rural areas but not densely populated ones like NoVa. |
Anonymous
It's a moot point; a 10k voucher isn't going to be enough for a poor kid (the kids voucher advocates like to pretend benefit) to go to any decent private school |
Anonymous
If the voucher is high enough, new schools would open. If a 25k tuition is reduced to 15k, or 20k to 10k, that increases the number of people who would consider it. 35k to 25k seems unlikely to help any low income. |
Anonymous
Dream on. If anyone opens additional private schools, they are not going to do so to offer depressed tuition for voucher rates. There are plenty of higher income families in the area that have the money, and especially would have the money if they had voucher money available, to pay higher tuition. Vouchers are a subsidy not a tuition replacement. So, all you are doing is allowing a bigger portion of the top to attend private schools. Middle and lower income students would not benefit at all from a voucher program and you are deluding yourself and anyone you talk to if you try to suggest that vouchers would help middle to lower income families. The only thing way that vouchers would help lower income students is to decrease class sizes a small amount when wealthier students leave the school for privates. |
Anonymous
L louis lucas has stopped YOUNGKIN not once not twice but many times. She beat him at his own game Anyone standing with that utter POS should leave the US and move to Russia. By the way prior to Trump and the party of traitors I was a republcian. Not liberal. NEVER EVER WILL VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN. You like Youngkin really? What has he done for VA? Nothing. And he will destroy it. Why are his entited children special going to school in Maryland when there are no mask mandates or vaccines in VA? His kids go to private school in MD that tells us all we need to know. He beleives in covid protocals for his family! By the way his twat tried to vote illegally and should be in jail. |
Anonymous
| Yes if you vote Republcian at mid terms not only will your schools have vouchers you will start paying Youngkin for public school. |
Anonymous
That is not true. The Catholic schools are affordable. Plus they are heavily subsidized by the church. AND the schools all offer assistance of their own for students in need. Why does something tell me you oppose any/ all vouchers, and you never seriously looked into what some schools cost, because you are far too rich to need a voucher? |
Anonymous
I wouldn’t worry about it. The most well-off people who want private (such as many politicians of all political parties) can do private without blinking. Vouchers can assist middle class and working class to escape a failing public school system but the wealthy don’t need them. |