Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real
Ack, that’s what I get for not thinking about what I’m writing. – Of course, universal vouchers – as Milton Friedman advocated – are vouchers for all. I always forget this, because the idea of blowing taxpayer dollars to subsidize wealthy parents’ private schools is so dumb it just slips right out of my head. Of course, as with many aspects of the anti-public school movement, what seems stupid and wasteful has a very specific purpose – to dismantle our country’s well-over-a-century-old system of public schooling and replace it with a privatized and even less fair mockery.
So let me rephrase: were vouchers a useful and necessary development, they would need to be limited to relatively low SES families and accepted at all schools. But since as far as can tell they’re -at best – not useful and unnecessary, well .. .
