kash,
Lets assume that 50% of parents want to take vouchers and put kids into private schools. Where are these private schools??
Where did the colleges came from? Where did all the private and catholic schools came from for example in New York City, where the current administration is driving the schools to the ground.
These things don't happen overnight, but if you never start, you will never get there.
Also what happens to the public schools which suddenly get down to 50% capacity.
Most likely, rather than a proportional decline in enrollment in all schools, the kids from the worst public schools will try to get into better ones, leaving some schools unused. These buildings can be used for new schools with administration unaffiliated with the failures of the past.
It seems to me this is a great targetted tax break for people who's kids are already in private school and political pandering in its finest.
And these people of course are evil, because they sacrifice their financial well being to protect their kids from getting raped or stabbed in public "schools".
I am thrilled about possibility of having to spend a lot of my own money because I live in place with failing schools. Friends of ours just sent their sent their son to school (kindergarden actually) starting this September, and the first thing our friend needed to do is to teach his son how to fight, how to defend himself. The school can't guarantee the basic safety.
Of course this doesn't fit the ivory tower thinking of some, who don't want reality to interfere with their "ideals".
Anyway, you would be surprised about sacrifices people make for their kids. Those who can afford just buy an expensive house in a good school district. Those who can't at least try to put together enough money for a Catholic school (that cost a lot less than public schools). Some but many are left behind, unable to escape the trap they are in, forced to send their kids to these horrible institutions where no learning takes place and the basic safety is non-existent.
Joe |
