Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real
We need good public schools to provide the workers that our future businesses will require.
That means good public schools in Detroit and Chicago, where they have no money, no books, bad teachers, no resources, and crumbling buildings. If vouchers take more funding from these crumbling schools, there will be nothing left for most of the children who will grow up to be your employees (or will be uneducated and will grow up to be desparate robbers or worse). These schools need resources overall, not vouchers to remove the best and brightest students from local schools into religious institutions and charter schools.
Vouchers in the suburbs will only take funding from the public schools. There are already good public schools in Bernardsville, Bronxville and Berkeley – and they don’t need vouchers to work well. With vouchers in those communities, there will be less money for good public schools — not a good thing.
Thanks to Laura McKenna for focusing on the schools and the children they are meant to serve.
