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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS[/quote]

Versus what?  Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system?  No thanks.  Families deserve an alternative.  [/quote]

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers. [/quote]

Except religious schools, these schools are $50K+ so what will happen is the schools will just raise their prices to match the voucher.[/quote]

The vouchers won't cover the cost of these schools.[/quote]

No, but they will help with the cost.  [/quote]

Then that's a hard no on vouchers.  The way you envision vouchers, it will allow those of means, e.g. UMC, who otherwise could not afford to go to private school to take a voucher and send their kids to private.  The point of public schooling is to provide guaranteed schooling for everyone, including those of low or poverty level income.  If the voucher amount is not enough to allow a child of low income to have the same benefits as children of high income, then the voucher money needs to stay in the school district to ensure that everyone gets the benefit of those public funds.  Vouchers could be a supportable cause if anyone of any means could use that money to go to a specialty school that was better suited for them, but public funds should not be used to create greater disparity between the haves and the have nots.  All that does is widen the gap between the haves and the have nots.

In any event, vouchers should be a non-starter.  Taxation is not a cafeteria plan where you get to pick and choose where your tax dollars go and what benefits you get from them.  Taxes are taken so that public agencies and institutions can be funded to fulfill a public responsibility.  Public schools are guaranteed education.  They are not the education of your choice.  If you are not satisfied with the education your children get in public school, you are welcome to pay for private school tuition out of your net income.  You are no more entitled to take your money out of the public schools that you don't use than I can take money out of the public works programs that pave the streets in your neighborhood just because I don't drive in your neighborhood.  Tax payers don't get to take tax money out of the system for a firehouse, police station or public library in another part of the county where they don't live.  You are a tax payer just like your childless neighbor or your empty nester neighbor neither of whom uses the public schools, but their taxes still go to provide public education for children who live in their community.  You all benefit from having a better educated population in your community.[/quote]

Except MCPS is doing a terrible job educating the poor, middle class, and wealthy students in MCPS.  School choice - for all students - will give opportunities for an education that simply no longer exists in MCPS. [/quote]

So you want 50k vouchers? [/quote]

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