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Please explain, in detail, how having no choice expands choice.[/quote]

Having fewer choices can allow for better focus on making them good choices.

Take this analogy: If there are 500 restaurants and not enough people to staff them, then you have lots of shitty choices.  If you have 10 restaurants that are well staffed with the best people, then you have better choices.[/quote]

In this city, the problem we have is that we have 10 restaurants staffed with "the best people" (hi, Trump!), but they already have people dining there and there are no tables for people who did not make a reservation months ago. The problem is that even with vouchers, there are still not enough seats in the private schools that people WANT to send their children to to accommodate all those people. I very much doubt that expanding the voucher program expands the number of seats available at those schools, given that those schools can fill up with people who are willing and able to pay full price.[/quote]

Exactly.  This is an issue of supply, not demand.  Vouchers (as likely to be constituted) are not going to do anything for supply in DC.  [/quote]

I'm not supportive of vouchers (or Betsy DeVos), but the only way I think that the DC voucher program could be expanded in a fashion that actually improves "choice" (quotes used VERY sarcastically) is to raise the means test used to determine eligibility. Right now, it is so low that middle class families cannot receive vouchers even if they want to send their kids to a mediocre parochial school. If there was a way that families making more than ~$23k a year but less than $200k a year can access this option, it might actually expand choice. [/quote]

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