I’ve never seen vouchers as a form of competition, but rather an escape.
The problem with most bad schools are usually a mixture of four problems: bad administration, bad teachers, bad parents and bad students. More precisely, it is based on how well each of those four groups is committed to getting or giving a good education.
If this was a problem of just bad teachers, it would have been solved a long time ago.
In neighborhoods, or isolated pockets, where education is ridiculed, the problems are the worst and no amount of money will ever change the outcomes until that attitude is changed. These people know who they are, so I won’t given any examples. Teachers, even with limitless resourses, who have deal with both bad parents and bad students, are made to look bad, whether they are or not.
Meanwhile, some school systems don’t even supply teachers with the simple requirements of books and paper, while school board members are driven about in chauffeured limos (i.e. Philadelphia).
Educatible children with involved parents are the biggest losers, unless the can pay for an alternative. This is here vouchers can help.
