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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upper class whites just don't want black and brown people to have the freedom to choose. They might choose religious schools, and that would be terrible.

Give everyone a 10k voucher and watch what happens to the educational system. And a lot cheaper than PS prices per kid, too.

As a black kid in inner city DC public schools, you have little likelihood of ending up as a college graduate with a stable job. Just look at the results. Put the same kid in any private school, and voila.

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This is a very facile understanding of the structural issues at the intersection of race and poverty, which maybe I should expect from someone still using the phrase "inner city."

Even though vouchers have a significant self-selection bias (parents who can navigate the system, petition the school, etc), outcomes for kids attending private schools on vouchers continue to be worse than their public school peers: https://www.brookings.edu/research/more-findings-about-school-vouchers-and-test-scores-and-they-are-still-negative/

Part of the reason for this is that $10K isn't enough to educate a student, so fly-by-nigh "private" schools pop up that are willing to accept the vouchers, but deliver a subpar education in return. Without any of the structure of a public school (infrastructure, curriculum, trained educators), they crop up, fail and then turn up again with a new name a few years down the road. In the meantime, kids have their education disrupted in the name of the free market, which does not work for education. [/quote]

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