It’s partly a push to privatize all schools and partly a tactic to get public funding for religious schools. Why should a secular government pay for religious schooling? Mostly it’s about privitizing.
School privitization is a purely ideological fever dream of Milton Friedman who believed that profit driven free markets are the most efficient at doing everything, and that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. This makes sense ifor widget factories and pottery barns, but not public services, not childcare and not the education of a nation’s citizens. Efficiency is not the most important metric of success if it means making services unaffordable or unavailable to portions of the public. A profit seeking school could deny service to learning disabled or neurodivergent children. Trying to make a profit in cases like this would probably mean more government intervention, and the results are usually less beneficial to the public than the government services provided in the first place. Anyway, private schools aren’t any better than public schools. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/special/special-sections/2018/07/27/study-private-schools-not-better-at-educating-kids/11260129007/
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Taxpayer money should only be used for public schools.
Vouchers and the illusion of choice are simply there to defund the public school system and remove choice for big swatches of people that can’t afford private school.
I think if you do want to send your kids to a private school it should be with your own money.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Disagree. Vouchers are the future.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Imagine saying this unironically.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What happens when all schools are more expensive then the vouchers? We saw that happen with higher education, where reducing the state funded option has put the cost of college out of reach for many. Is the idea going forward that education will not be guaranteed?
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are you implying that only those who attend private school are the future, and public school attendees are not?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why do you want to defund public schools instead of improving them?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
How do you figure vouchers are the “illusion” of choice? Do they not provide real, actual choice?