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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The OP asks about vouchers in DC or the DMV. Would there be enough vouchers and spaces in private schools for all 50k kids in DCPS? Or the other 47k in DCPCS? Shouldn’t all the families have a choice? [/quote]k

Anyone in favor of vouchers want to field this one?

Where there are not enough private schools, who of the 50k students gets a voucher? Who decides?[/quote]

The vast majority of those parents don’t give a crap about their kids and aren’t raising them properly and wouldn’t bother to fill in the paperwork to get them into a private school, let alone enforce the discipline standards, make sure they do their homework, etc. If everyone was a good parent then we wouldn’t be having this discussion in the first place.[/quote]

Not an answer. [/quote]

The answer is that you won’t need to find anywhere close to 50k places.[/quote]

Let’s say 15k. Show me where those fifteen thousand private school seats are in DC. Go ahead.

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Catholic schools are about $10-15k for k-8, and $20-25k for high school.[/quote]

No, fifteen thousand private school places, not tuition. And that’s not even counting the over 40k students in DCPCS schools.

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There’s no market for it yet, but it’s conceivable that with vouchers, new private schools will serve the students some likely employing teachers and administrators from existing public schools.[/quote]

Which kids get to attend?[/quote]

The new schools would of course be non-profit, just like the private ones today. Kids that would go to public, will now have the option to attend these schools if they choose so.[/quote]

Open admissions? 
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No, it wouldn't be open admissions.

[i]Private schools[/i] would have the choice, not parents.

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The PP said the parents have the choice. But it’s really private school admins? Anyone doing any oversight on how money is spent and how admissions decisions are made? Any requirements to admit and support students with special needs? ELL students? Recent immigrants? Poor kids?
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“Oversight about how the money is spent” is what got us a layer of bureaucracy in our public school system where the paper pushers cost taxpayers more than the actual teachers do. No thanks. [b]And having a classroom free of behavioral issues is one of the goals of the new schools parents are seeking.[/b] Since public schools call behavioral issues “special needs” these days, no, there won’t be requirements to admit and support special needs. It simply costs too much - financially and in terms of what it costs the other students in emotional impact and lost learning.

If you really cared about special needs then you would advocate for very strict behavioral requirements in classrooms so that parents didn’t need to make the difficult and sometimes expensive decision to abandon public schooling altogether so that their kids can have a safe and productive learning environment at school.[/quote]

Lol. Most of these new parents have kids with behavioral problems. No one wants to admit that these days. [/quote]

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