School Vouchers

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Anonymous wrote:What good are vouchers with no open spots? How on earth could private schools absorb all these unsatisfied people?

How can they add classes if they don't physically have the space? Parents would be waiting years for the private school market to grow in NoVA.

+1 And they're not going to buy new buildings for what may only be a temporary spike in enrollment. The other option is to increase their classroom size, but that's going to piss off their regular customers who chose private for the small class size.

Vouchers are also not for full tuition costs, so even if the state diverts funding, parents will still be paying for school - especially in this area, unless you're willing to go parochial school, you're looking at $20-40K/kid, which the state will not cover fully.

I might use a school voucher to pay for all the extra in person tutoring. My private school might get trailers like the public schools. My private school might find that they have more space. It's not really the point is it? If public school can't educate my child, then I should have the choice to educate them elsewhere.

I’m sure they’d all be happy to raise tuition by the amount of the voucher - just think of what and extra 10k per student would do for their endowments
It’s exactly the point. Find that they have more space? Add trailers? You’re dreaming if you think the existing private school structure can or wants to take on a mass exodus from public schools.

[Anonymous]

Trailers? As soon as private schools start looking like public schools parents won't be interested anymore. I've lived in Northern Virginia long enough to know that.

[Anonymous]

None of this is the point. Should parents be able to get school vouchers if they do not choose to send their children to public school using the funds that would have gone to the public school? If the unions are preventing a return to in person school, should we be able to choose a school for which this is not a problem?

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No, vouchers will only make it that much more difficult for public schools to recover from the pandemic.

If you want to remediate, public schools need more money, not less.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - I realize this is a Republican talking point. I'm a democrat who has never supported this in the past. But now I'm starting to see the value in it since my public school can't educate my children. My wealthier neighbors already send their children to private school. This year has been so expensive in terms of additional child care and tutoring costs - I will go bankrupt if this continues another year.

What do you mean your public school can’t educate your children? Are you doing distance learning or not?!? Mine are and they are learning just fine.

Distance Teaching does not equal distance learning.

[Anonymous]

Yes 100% vouchers! I’ll vote for any pro voucher candidate now. -former liberal who is livid about no school

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Anonymous wrote:New schools can and will open.

Imagine all the pop-up, strip mall private schools. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:None of this is the point.

Should parents be able to get school vouchers if they do not choose to send their children to public school using the funds that would have gone to the public school?

If the unions are preventing a return to in person school, should we be able to choose a school for which this is not a problem?

No

That's not what's happening

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New schools can and will open.

Imagine all the pop-up, strip mall private schools. No thanks.

Way better than school that exists only on an iPad for goodness sake!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of this is the point.

Should parents be able to get school vouchers if they do not choose to send their children to public school using the funds that would have gone to the public school?

If the unions are preventing a return to in person school, should we be able to choose a school for which this is not a problem?

No

That's not what's happening

This is exactly what is happening.

[Anonymous]

I think vouchers could work with s tiered funding system. Average kid would get a $10,000 voucher. ESL $20,000 Voucher. SpEd $20,000-40,000 voucher depending on code. Thus private schools would have incentive to accept some esl and SpEd kids. Public schools would be well funded too if they ended up with mostly esl and Spec. Ed. There would be less inequalities and better schools since there would be competition. Further, specialized schools designed to serve special needs, minorities, gifted, etc. could open and serve those students previously unable to afford it. Class sizes would be reduced. There would be no requirements attached to the vouchers unless a family chooses to homeschool. Everyone wins?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely against vouchers. You want to send your kid somewhere else—that’s totally fine. School choice is something you already have. It’s not on me to pay for your choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think vouchers could work with s tiered funding system. Average kid would get a $10,000 voucher. ESL $20,000 Voucher. SpEd $20,000-40,000 voucher depending on code. Thus private schools would have incentive to accept some esl and SpEd kids. Public schools would be well funded too if they ended up with mostly esl and Spec. Ed. There would be less inequalities and better schools since there would be competition. Further, specialized schools designed to serve special needs, minorities, gifted, etc. could open and serve those students previously unable to afford it. Class sizes would be reduced. There would be no requirements attached to the vouchers unless a family chooses to homeschool. Everyone wins?

But those numbers you just quoted. Parents would be receiving closer to 25-30% of that amount

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely against vouchers. You want to send your kid somewhere else—that’s totally fine. School choice is something you already have. It’s not on me to pay for your choices.

Yep!

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Anonymous wrote:New schools can and will open.

Imagine all the pop-up, strip mall private schools. No thanks.

Way better than school that exists only on an iPad for goodness sake!!!

Additional private school options are still going to be a couple years away and students will be off of distance learning by then.