private school vouchers--any chatter yet?

[Anonymous]

We are in DC at a DC school, and vouchers already exist. We can't even get one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People whose children are already in private school should be exempted from getting vouchers. You already made the choice, you can clearly avoid it, or are getting financial aid. Let other people have an opportunity, selfish OP.

Yes, only you should get the special shiny things -- those who sacrificed housing and vacation to send their kids to schools must continue to suffer for their choices.

[Anonymous]

I cannot see too many existing schools in this area accepting the vouchers because there will be strings attached. If you think that the private schools are not watching what is happening to colleges and universities that accept Federal money, you are crazy. People are willing to pay the already high tuition rates to attend private schools, why accept vouchers and all that comes with them when you have a lot more people applying for seats at schools that charge $50,000 or more?

I would guess that you might see new private schools pop up, hoping to take advantage of the voucher money, but they are not going to be the ones most of the people on this board are interested in.

[Anonymous]

A $2k discount is not going to help many people when tuition is $50k to almost $60k at the top privates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot see too many existing schools in this area accepting the vouchers because there will be strings attached. If you think that the private schools are not watching what is happening to colleges and universities that accept Federal money, you are crazy. People are willing to pay the already high tuition rates to attend private schools, why accept vouchers and all that comes with them when you have a lot more people applying for seats at schools that charge $50,000 or more?

I would guess that you might see new private schools pop up, hoping to take advantage of the voucher money, but they are not going to be the ones most of the people on this board are interested in.

Many already do take DC vouchers, including Sidwell and St. Albans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People whose children are already in private school should be exempted from getting vouchers. You already made the choice, you can clearly avoid it, or are getting financial aid. Let other people have an opportunity, selfish OP.

You've just discovered by Republicans love vouchers.

They want taxpayers to subsidize their kid's private school tuition.

[Anonymous]

THIS is why we are putting our nation deeper into debt? To subsidize tuition for private school kids?

So wrong on so many levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious on how the private school voucher program passed in the Big Beautiful (yuck) Bill will go. Not a fan of BBB, but if the $ is going to be there to help with tuition, we might apply. I know states need to opt-in, I'm guessing that Maryland will not but there's a decent chance Virginia would if the deadline is before the new gov. Research suggests that when these types of programs pass in states that private school tuition goes up...really hope we don't see that happen. My concern is that our private will bump tuition more than the usual hike but then the voucher program will go away when Trump leaves office (let's hope), leaving us with much higher tuition. It also seems like there is a lot of ?! on the amount of the actual voucher, since it depends on how many people "donate" to the fund for tax breaks, and what the "scholarship" recipient orgs actually offer...anyway, sounds like it's going to be a long process with Dept of Ed needing to issue guidance/regulations, but don't know who's going to do that when their staff is so gutted.

(I hate to admit it, but a 2-3K discount/kid would give us some breathing room)

No
Absolutely no
Religious privates will have no oversight under project 2025

Keep your moms4 liberty crap away from kids

Public school $ should not go to pay for you to indoctrinate your kidv

Public schools are already indoctrinating kids with left wing concepts. Fortunately we were able to avoid public school without financial help. With public schools going off the rails with their crazy ideology, we need vouchers to give parents options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious on how the private school voucher program passed in the Big Beautiful (yuck) Bill will go. Not a fan of BBB, but if the $ is going to be there to help with tuition, we might apply. I know states need to opt-in, I'm guessing that Maryland will not but there's a decent chance Virginia would if the deadline is before the new gov. Research suggests that when these types of programs pass in states that private school tuition goes up...really hope we don't see that happen. My concern is that our private will bump tuition more than the usual hike but then the voucher program will go away when Trump leaves office (let's hope), leaving us with much higher tuition. It also seems like there is a lot of ?! on the amount of the actual voucher, since it depends on how many people "donate" to the fund for tax breaks, and what the "scholarship" recipient orgs actually offer...anyway, sounds like it's going to be a long process with Dept of Ed needing to issue guidance/regulations, but don't know who's going to do that when their staff is so gutted.

(I hate to admit it, but a 2-3K discount/kid would give us some breathing room)

No
Absolutely no
Religious privates will have no oversight under project 2025

Keep your moms4 liberty crap away from kids

Public school $ should not go to pay for you to indoctrinate your kidv

Public schools are already indoctrinating kids with left wing concepts. Fortunately we were able to avoid public school without financial help. With public schools going off the rails with their crazy ideology, we need vouchers to give parents options.

The government that funds the public schools is the exact same government that issues the vouchers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People whose children are already in private school should be exempted from getting vouchers. You already made the choice, you can clearly avoid it, or are getting financial aid. Let other people have an opportunity, selfish OP.

You've just discovered by Republicans love vouchers.

They want taxpayers to subsidize their kid's private school tuition.

Maybe so.

But there's also a lot of people who want to pressure the public schools into improving by giving more people an opportunity to vote with their feet.

It ought to be abundantly clear that the public school monopoly is a problem. 17% of MoCo high schoolers already attend private schools without vouchers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People whose children are already in private school should be exempted from getting vouchers. You already made the choice, you can clearly avoid it, or are getting financial aid. Let other people have an opportunity, selfish OP.

Yes, only you should get the special shiny things -- those who sacrificed housing and vacation to send their kids to schools must continue to suffer for their choices.

“Suffer”

😆

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People whose children are already in private school should be exempted from getting vouchers. You already made the choice, you can clearly avoid it, or are getting financial aid. Let other people have an opportunity, selfish OP.

You've just discovered by Republicans love vouchers.

They want taxpayers to subsidize their kid's private school tuition.

Maybe so.

But there's also a lot of people who want to pressure the public schools into improving by giving more people an opportunity to vote with their feet.

It ought to be abundantly clear that the public school monopoly is a problem. 17% of MoCo high schoolers already attend private schools without vouchers.

It's not just that. Ideally vouchers should be a way to provide people with less means the exact same flexibility that people who have more financial assets (or grandparent help) have. There are definitely people who would be at private if they could afford it because they care about education. Don't those people matter?

Now I'm not saying vouchers actually fix this in practice. I'm just saying this is how many voucher supporters think. And I say that as someone paying full tuition for my kids at private school.

[Anonymous]

I live in a state with vouchers (Florida). What happened here is that the expensive privates refused to accept the vouchers and kept their prices the same. However, there were a lot of small privates that popped up that run on just the voucher or a little more. The schools focus on different families and different kids (eg teaching Latin or keeping the kids outdoors almost all the time). And there are other schools that blend homeschooling and private (like a small school but for 2 or 3 days a week). They usually stop at high school because it’s too expensive to offer all classes for the small amount of money that the schools run on. So that’s something that people understand and accept. And the parents seem more involved than at a regular school. Honestly it seems to be working pretty well here. I think about a third of the kids in the state overall do something other than public school (private, homeschool or charter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious on how the private school voucher program passed in the Big Beautiful (yuck) Bill will go. Not a fan of BBB, but if the $ is going to be there to help with tuition, we might apply. I know states need to opt-in, I'm guessing that Maryland will not but there's a decent chance Virginia would if the deadline is before the new gov. Research suggests that when these types of programs pass in states that private school tuition goes up...really hope we don't see that happen. My concern is that our private will bump tuition more than the usual hike but then the voucher program will go away when Trump leaves office (let's hope), leaving us with much higher tuition. It also seems like there is a lot of ?! on the amount of the actual voucher, since it depends on how many people "donate" to the fund for tax breaks, and what the "scholarship" recipient orgs actually offer...anyway, sounds like it's going to be a long process with Dept of Ed needing to issue guidance/regulations, but don't know who's going to do that when their staff is so gutted.

(I hate to admit it, but a 2-3K discount/kid would give us some breathing room)

No
Absolutely no
Religious privates will have no oversight under project 2025

Keep your moms4 liberty crap away from kids

Public school $ should not go to pay for you to indoctrinate your kidv

Public schools are already indoctrinating kids with left wing concepts. Fortunately we were able to avoid public school without financial help. With public schools going off the rails with their crazy ideology, we need vouchers to give parents options.

Hanging out on DCUM, but not from around here? The public schools are way less progressive than the privates around here. At least the elite and lower tier ones. I don’t know about the crappy ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a school accepts federal voucher money, then they'd have to turn their schools into little Trumptopias. I don't see that happening at most of the big-name local privates.

This.

No decent private in this area, NYC, or Boston will accept vouchers.