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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with vouchers is that people think for example that if a district spends on average $10,000 per child that parents should get that amount of money. In actuality in public schools educating over half of kids takes only $5,000 because many kids take 15,000 or 20,000 or even 100,000 to educate every year. It isn't fair when charter schools or schools with vouchers take all the students who are easy to educate and leave public neighborhood schools with the most difficult and costly students to educate. Charter schools and private schools that accept vouchers in other parts of the country don't take emotionally disturbed kids who need one to one aides or residential care, they don't take newcomers who just immigrated, they don't take a student with autism who is nonverbal, they won't take a deaf student who needs an adult to provide translation services for every class (that is about 50- 75,000 a year once you factor in benefits.) [/quote]

This, plus the public schools' infrastructure portfolio (buildings, busses, etc.) then are divided out across a smaller pool of students, taking money away from teachers, resource specialists, and technology because you can't just close down schools/shuffle kids around in short order as enrollment changes.[/quote]

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