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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter Schools: https://doe.virginia.gov/instruction/charter_schools/charter_schools.shtml

For the 2022-23 school year, there are 143 magnet public schools serving 153,580 students in Virginia.

We also have specialty schools.

Vouchers? Not likely in VA, but I'm sure Youngkin will try.

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[b]A voucher in Fairfax or Arlington is just a tax break for a family already sending their kid to private. [/b]I don't see it ever happening here. [/quote]

I don’t want to subsidize private school kids. 
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Not to mention private schools in these areas are already at capacity with paying families.  What slots would actually be available for someone to use with a voucher?  I could see vouchers working in more rural areas but not densely populated ones like NoVa.[/quote]

If the voucher is high enough, new schools would open.  If a 25k tuition is reduced to 15k, or 20k to 10k, that increases the number of people who would consider it.  35k to 25k seems unlikely to help any low income.[/quote]

Dream on.  If anyone opens additional private schools, they are not going to do so to offer depressed tuition for voucher rates.  There are plenty of higher income families in the area that have the money, and especially would have the money if they had voucher money available, to pay higher tuition.  Vouchers are a subsidy not a tuition replacement.  So, all you are doing is allowing a bigger portion of the top to attend private schools.  Middle and lower income students would not benefit at all from a voucher program and you are deluding yourself and anyone you talk to if you try to suggest that vouchers would help middle to lower income families.  The only thing way that vouchers would help lower income students is to decrease class sizes a small amount when wealthier students leave the school for privates.[/quote]

Someone posted here FARMS is available up to 56k.  I can see someone making 56K willing to spend 10K or 15K to send to private school.[/quote]

You're crazy.  If they make $56K, then they are paying roughly $8K in taxes.  They are paying about $4.3K in FICA.  So take home is about $44K.  That is less than $4K per month, roughly $3700.  The average rent for a 2BR in Arlington is $2900.  So that means that they have $800 per month to pay for utilities, cell phone, food, clothing and other living necessities.  At $2900, they are paying $34800 per year in rent and after taxes, FICA and rent they have about $9K total for all of the rest of their ANNUAL expenses.  And you really think that this family making $56K could consider $10K to add onto the voucher to pay for private school?

Hopefully your child is better at math than you are.   No one on FARMS is going to be able to afford to put anything towards private tuition.  If the voucher is not a full ride, they are going to the zoned public.[/quote]

- except:  you keep cherry-picking and ignoring the fact that all of the privates offer scholarships, aid, reductions, etc. for students in need.  Usually what makes the difference is the voucher.

But since your knee jerk reaction is hatred toward vouchers, I do not expect you to argue rationally.[/quote]

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