Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real
“Furthermore, it’s the only entity I’m aware of that makes everyone pay whether they use the service or not.”
Really? Are you sure?
“Public education is . . . failing and it has to be repaired.”
Again, *public education* isn’t failing; middle-class+suburban-y public schools are doing basically fine (again, there’s always room for improvement, but what we’re talking about is the fantasy of “the public schools”, where – if you take the rhetoric at face value- it would seem that public schools in Upper Merion or Scarsdale or wherever are full of illiterate kids roaming the halls and attacking teachers.) It’s isolated poor underfunded rural public schools and culturally isolated, desperately poor underfunded urban schools that are in trouble. We’re not asking for more funding out of greed or laziness – it actually takes more money to provide a quality education in those circumstances.
