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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I make 250k combined so we wouldn't get vouchers...but I don't understand the logic for opposing them. I think they'd make the system better.  If a private can charge 10k and get a better result than a public that charges the taxpayer 20k.. why not?

Forget for a minute kids with serious disabilities. If the child's only issue is a behavioral one...they need consequences..Though public schools are a "right" hundreds of years ago they were still considered a privilege..people had to farm etc... and students could be expelled.[/quote]

Because this program is already existence, and 78% of the subsidies have been going to people who already have their kids in private school.  Why is that a good thing to subsidize the choices parents would be making with or without government intervention?[/quote]

Where does this 78 percent number come from? Neither you nor I know. I have a feeling if people had real choices they would be leaving the public schools in mass.
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This article https://www.google.com/amp/www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bs-md-voucher-program-review-20170116-story,amp.html

"public school students in Maryland were able to attend private schools this year through a controversial new program that offers state grants of up to $4,400 to help defray tuition costs, state education officials say.

But most students helped by the program — more than 1,900 — used the money to remain in private schools where they were already enrolled."

Othere points in the article were that the vouchers gave families between 1,000 to 4,400 based on income and couldn't be used at schools with tuition above 14,000 so again no vouchers for Sidwell/St Albsnd/Barrie etc.[/quote]

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