Comment on Florida’s private school vouchers soar, creating concern over impact on public schools
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months agoThe only way I see them working is they are limited and possibly income based.
Meaning if the voucher is worth 10k. You can only spend 10k. You can pay more. That’ll encourage schools to keep their prices down. If someone wants to send their kids to an 11k school they have to pay the whole 11k.
I don’t know the right dollar amount but there should be a cap. Right parents are often sending their kids to private schools anyway. The goal of vouchers is to push bottom scoring schools to do better or another way is you only get vouchers if you school is scoring in a certain category.
The school I attended was one of the top in the nation. My family was poor but hypothetically we shouldn’t be offered vouchers due to the quality of education provided.
I see inner cities getting the most benefit but rural America will still struggle. That’s a tough nut to crack since the population density is low.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That amusingly enough is also a reason why public schools cost more than private schools.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Rural tends to spend less per student. Schools are funded by local taxes for the majority of the expenditures. When most your population is below poverty level income, you just don’t want the tax base. You also can’t get private schools to compete for the 10 kids in the class. So that’s one scenario I don’t know what the right answer is.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But even though you don’t know the answer you’re okay with defunding the current solution because you don’t agree with it?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Since they’d still have public school, their situation would stay the same but it would improve the education of millions of poor minority children.
I think that’s a good thing.