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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vouchers increase choice because you can take your voucher and go where you want.  The voucher should be the equivalent of what DCPS spends per pupil. There will be plenty of quality providers lining up; a board can provide oversight as is done with charters. The voucher is a passport to quality education in a safe environment.  Anyone against more choice doesn't have kids in the system.[/quote]

DC has a lot of really wonderful private schools. Many of them are really hard to get into, even at full price. An $8-10,000 voucher is not going to suddenly create more spaces at those schools. There are some high quality parochial schools, but for those of us who are not willing to send our kids to parochial school, that's not an option even if the vouchers would cover the tuition, which is by no means assured.

To me, a voucher program increases "school choice" the same way that charters who have 3 seats available for non-siblings in the lottery increase school choice. Sure, someone will get in, but it's not a meaningful choice for the vast majority of students in the lottery.

A better strategy would be to support public schools (which DeVos categorically does not do). DCPS needs to retain middle class families, but it refuses to open test-in middle schools to provide an option for families who would otherwise move to the counties where G&T is available. There are a lot of competing interests in DCPS, and while their priority remains education of underprivileged children over retaining middle class families, there isn't going to be real reform.

Your post sounds like someone who doesn't have kids in the system HERE. A voucher isn't going to get you any more choice than you already have.[/quote]

No, I have kids here and I want vouchers.  I'm done with DCPS as non-responsive; it holds no more future for my family. My family will do quite well here in DC with vouchers; without vouchers we will likely leave and regardless we'll not settle with the current state of DCPS.  My neighbors (with my kids' friends) have already left for the suburbs - to where most DCPS officials who have families already live; I'm tired of all of this; DCPS is making a wasteland devoid of kids in my neighborhood. That's not a public service.[/quote]

You're just operating on a fact-free basis.  Vouchers are not going to solve your problem.  It's much more likely that a charter would be a choice for you.  Or you can just do the online charter and hire a governness with a few other families.  Or homeschool.  But I get it, it's more attractive and fun to be fact-free. [/quote]

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