In article , axolotl says...

It looks like I am the only one in the group who can settle this. I am
impartial; my wife tells me I have a pathological hatred of school.

:^) You're in good company!

The state already has kids with "special needs" sent to private school.
One the big items in my town's school budget is the cost of sending a
few kids to very expensive private schools that hopefully meet their needs.

Right, but those few kids take up more than their percentage of
funding that flows in to the public system through taxes. If you
go and say 'now everyone gets an equal slice of the pie, here's
your check for such-and-such dollars' that will be calculated on
the equal slice theory.

The special needs kids are now left with, say, 30% of what's
required to school them. The real problem here is that public
schools really smack of socialism - income redistribution and all.
This sticks in the craw of the voucher folks. They want to get
*their* hands on every nickel that's 'due' them, screw the
disabled kids. They can have their welfare mom stay home and
school them there.

And we're not going to start discussing what happens when public tax
money starts getting funnelled into parochial schools. What a
mess. Now we're going to have the state (who *is* vouchering this
stuff, right?) calling the shots in religious schools.

Image that: "OK, your curriculum has to include this and this
and this, because we're paying the bills." Catholic schools have
to observe Jewish holidays, etc.

There's a huge first amendment problem right there.

Jim

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