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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you're poorly informed. DC has a school voucher program that is a miserable failure. Most of the students go to schools that are almost entirely voucher-funded and there is no accredation or accountability process for these voucher schools. The state of these schools is extremely bad. Vouchers will not fix the public education challenges in our city or in our country.[/quote]

They go to parochial schools that cost less than $10,000, many of which are Blue Ribbon schools where kids learn a great deal in a safe environment.  What's wrong with that?  PP, you sound like a DCPS troll.[/quote]

Some go to halfway decent parochial schools but a vast majority go to schools you've likely never heard of- schools that are almost entirely voucher-funded. I'm not a DCPS troll; I work in social services and part of my job is advising families on school options. Before I took this job I thought the voucher program was a good option to provide more choices to poor families but after working with families for many years I am firmly against it. I've visited many of the schools my families' children attend- families sometimes think private school must be better than public school- and the staff who support the voucher program help with this misconception. I would never send my child to many of these schools.

I've also worked at DCPS schools and charters- some great, some terrible. I really don't have a dog in this fight except to say that there is no evidence at all that a school voucher program will work in DC. If you saw some of these schools, you couldn't help but agree with me.[/quote]

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