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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (16507)	7/2/2002 11:54:40 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 21057

You say that probably the best solution is to ration scarce slots in good schools by price. Yet it strikes me that the outcome produced by that system would likely not be much different than what we have today.....the rich can already buy slots in the best schools by either moving to expensive school districts or sending their kids to expensive private schools. The poor don't have those options, and they have to settle for the less desirable schools. Perhaps the voucher system would still help, by motivating the truly awful schools to improve or shut their doors for lack of students. But the gaping inequality of the system would remain. I am not talking about inequality of outcomes (which I view as inevitable and not necessarily undesirable) but inequality of opportunity. A bright child in a bad school is not going to be able to meet her potential as she proceeds to higher levels in the educational system and in the world. A voucher system which still depends heavily on rationing by price would fail to do much if anything about that problem.