In article , Malcolm
Kirkpatrick says...

...what do you do with the kids who spend their subsidy
and then run of voucher money half way through the year?

MK. There are a couple of ways to accommodate this objection: 1) the
State can pay tuition on a month-by-month basis (and in most school
voucher plans, the State pays the tuition subsidy to a school, not to
parents),

I think what I was getting at is the idea that the vouchers are
not going to cover the full freight at most private schools,
so the parents are going to have to handle the remainder. It
would be nice if the state simply handed over an 'equal slice'
payment (which probably *would* cover most of the tuition
in a private school, at least until the exodust of from public
schools drove up the price...) but for a variety of reasons
that's probably never going to happen.

So the question is, once a kid takes a voucher, but the
parents can no longer contribute their sha

Do You Require the Public School to Take the Kid Back??



And, how do you handle the entanglement that vouchers are going
to cause between state funding and religious schools?

MK. I don't worry much about them.

That's like saying, "I don't care about a teeny little
tornado!"

Sure *you* don't care but that little thing like the bill
of rights *does* care! What are the private schools going to
do when the state starts demanding that catholic schools
recognize jewish holidays, or that they ban religious displays?

State money being funnelled into parochial schools is the
first step towards a huge first amendment collision.
That collision *will* happen in the courts when vouchers are
first tried. It is also one of the biggest reasons why
vouchers will be avoided for quite some time to come.

Jim

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