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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: epicure who wrote (3337)10/23/2000 1:00:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
and if it is EQUALLY poor for everyone than the incentive for EVERYONE is to improve the public school.

With a solid system of vouchers you get market incentives for schools to improve. I submit market incentives are more likely to produce the positive result of higher quality then the political incentive caused by a general feeling that the
schools are not good.

separate layer of bureaucrats (UGH) to regulate your new private schools - because these schools will be getting
public money so they will have to be watched by someone.

The parents will be getting public money to send to the school of their choice (includeing public schools). There should not be any neccessity for heavy handed regulation or bureaucratic control over private schools that recieve vouchers. (There should be less bureucracy in public school systems as well but that's a different discussion)

It can be bad because there is simply not enough money to create two excellent separate systems of education in this country. I would like us to focus all that energy and money on the public schools- if we don't, we may destroy the public schools.

You would not be duplicateing all resources. You don't need a big new system, you need perhaps a few new schools plus letting the exiting ones (public and private) compete.
The greater efficancy (largely do to less regulation and less union power) of many private and charter schools will probably actually reduce the cost.

If all the motivated parents and or the parents with enough money to supplement the vouchers leave the public schools- who will be left in public school?

If existing schools can not or do not do what it takes to compete then students will go elsewhere. Students will be drawn to schools that do better. Schools that do very bad will eithier lose all of their students, or be reorginized as a new school. Students will not be stuck in bad schools like they can be now.

Private Schools aren't going to want to take the special education youngsters, for these kids are extremely expensive to educate. How about the learning disabled? Again - very expensive to educate, nope, private schools won't take them.

Private schools that take such students allready exist. Widespread use of vouchers (probably with somewhat larger vouchers for special cases) would increase the supply of good education for these kids.

Private schools might work out to the advantage of some, but I feel it would not work out to the advantage of the majority and I fail to see why we shouldn't just FIX what we have, rather than creating a new untested system

Vouchers would be one of the best ways to fix the public schools as they will then face real competition and have to adapt to it.

with new problems and a new bureaucracy (and if you don't want to create a new bureaucracy to monitor the new schools than you would be letting these new schools run open loop, with no idea of how they are spending public money- and if you don't think there would be new schools, you may not realize that most private schools have waiting lists
already- even with vouchers, where would the kids go?).

You don't need a large bureaucracy to deal with the money going to private institutions under the GI Bill. Vouchers could be treated in a similar fashion.
There would be some new schools that would be created in response to the demand created by the vouchers. In some cases public schools might change into charter schools.

Tim
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