So you prefer pouring in more and more money to get worse and worse output? This is the deal you like?
You somehow keep skipping over the details of how to implement something attainable in this political atmosphere, while jumping to things that aren't being proposed.
You start changing the political atmosphere then. It will anyway, you know. It's just a question of what direction it goes in.
Details? A state gov't says: We will collect all education money- -state, local, federal. We will divide that amount by the # of school-age kids in the state. Each parent will get a voucher for the same amount for each kid in that category. Any school can take them. And, BTW, any citizens who want to vote to shut down their school districts and sell their assets may do so.
Good enough?
Who pays the difference between the voucher and the tuition?
The parent, of course.
How are you going to accommodate the increase in class size at the private schools?
The land and buildings of the old public system are still there. If the people shut down the public system, private companies can buy them. If not, they build their own and compete.
Are there enough private schools and classrooms to place all the kids you want to place?
See above.
What about the additional teachers?
The public system wouldn't disappear instantaneously. There would be time to get new ones.
And bus routes?
The school companies responsibility.
On what basis should the private schools reject voucher applicants?
Whatever they choose.
Am I entitled to a voucher if my kid is already in private school?
Of course!
Why not, I'm a taxpayer aren't I?
See above.
How much is built into the budget for assuming the tuition of existing private school kids?
Nothing.
What are you going to do with the empty public schools?
If the public system in a district is shut down, they ae sold. Probably to private schools. Because of falling enrollments (the Baby Bust) that has happened many times in the area where I live. Works fine. A private Jewish school that used to be a public school is about 3 blocks from me.
Otherwise they're still there.
Can you afford the termination expenses for all the laid off public school teachers?
That's something that's decided when a election is held to shut down the public system And it doesn't have to be done instantaneously. A district could convert school by school.
What if the private schools start hiring those old public school teachers?
They can hire whoever they want.
What if the private school teachers unionize?
Let 'em. Ford and GM have been unionized for decades. You still get better cars than they ever got in Russia or Eastern Europe. Ford's workers don't get 3 months off a year and a 6-hour day. And periodically the unions get their kneecaps broken by the company. Private companies don't cave nearly as well as gov'ts to union pressure.
You know, if you say the current system can't be replaced, you just voted to keep it. |
