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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But vouchers historically don't actually help anyone go to private school. If vouchers are for $5000, the price of tuition at the private schools goes up nearly $5000. It's just padding the profits for private, often religious based schools.

Private schools are also allowed to deny admission as they see fit. Your child with behavioral issues or learning disabilities that isn't thriving in public school isnt going to get into private and now they're going to be stuck in underfunded public schools with all of the other kids whose parents couldn't afford to send them to private or couldn't get in because of their own behavioral or learning issues.

Private schools have "better results" because they are selective over who they admit. If you can't test well and are going to bring their numbers down, you're dropped from the program. Sure, having a cohort of other intelligent kids can motivate many kids to do better but there is no private school magic that makes the learning better other than exclusion of everyone who would hold their scores back. [/quote]

My kid is high performing without any known learning disability/issues. And we can relatively easily afford private school, even the ones that rival college tuition.

I never thought in a million years that I’d consider private school. I was a public school kid and believe in the value of that system. I believe that teachers should be paid a lot more than they are.

But when the school board actively goes after my families and my neighbors because we are in a certain neighborhood and they use our kids as their resources to deploy to try to help other kids, that’s the point I say “no thanks.”

And it’s because of that betrayal that I would reluctantly become an opponent of the public school system that I have always supported. I guess in a way this will become my villain backstory.[/quote]

what??[/quote]

PP doesn’t want her kid to go to school with “the poors”.  
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Well now you’re just making things up, which isn’t surprising given the dire impact that vouchers will have on the county.

Keep vilifying people who care about their kids’ education. I’d expect nothing less from you.[/quote]

Don’t engage with people like that. They must lead very sad lives that they have to come here and be mean to anonymous people. Ignore these judgmental ladies. [/quote]

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