In article , Koz says...

One rule I would impose on vouchers...If you accept them (assuming the
voucher is the same amount the public school would get), you accept them
as full payment. The goal is get people who can do it MORE efficiently
and better, not more costly and exclusive than public schools.

This would make sense to me. I think one reason why private schools
invariably are run at a lower cost than public schools is their
ability to operate outside an entire subset of regulations that
public schools are required to obey.

The ADA thing that I mentioned before, for example.

Private schools have one thing that public schools would *love*
to be able to boast about, but cannot: the ability to say
"no" to some students. One single kid can cause enormous amounts
of hassle and disruption in a classroom by misbehaving. I saw
that happen in my daugher's school for two or three years running.

Then that kid was told "don't come back, we've tried everything."
What a difference.

Public schools can't do that. That's one more reason they
cost more to run. They *have* to take everyone.

Jim

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