Vouchers would not ensure those left behind would still get a decent
education. But it would ensure that those who wanted a decent
education would have a chance to get one. Now they don't have enough
money to go any where except public school.

And you shouldn't need more teachers. You have the same amount of
kids. So assuming public schools shrunk in size, the new teachers
would mostly go to private schools.

And if done as I think it should be done, the public schools would
have more money per kid. Say currently public schools get 10,000 per
kid and 1000 kids, so 10,000,000 for public schools. Say 300 kids
take the vouchers, which I said should be about 40% of the cost. So
that is 4000 dollars times 300 kids, or 1,200,000 dollars. Subtracted
from the 10,000,000 leaves 8,800,000 for 700 kids or over 12,500 per
kid. Twenty five percent more per kid although less money overall.
Same costs to the tax payer.

Dan


jim rozen wrote in message ...
In article , Gunner says...

... How does a voucher plan ensure
that the left-behinds will still get a decent education?


Still not obvious here. If Fitch were around, he would (did)
ask the biggie question: WHERE are you going to get those
teachers who can actually teach? All the teachers are already
employed. So how are you going to staff the extra, or larger,
private schools once vouchers permit portability?

Administration costs will fall, as they remove the deadwood and
streamline. With fewer kids in the public schools, wear and tear on
the infrastructure will be reduced and for those children who tear up
the place, are "unteachable" etc..they will be finally handled the way
they should be. With the proper punishment and expulsion as needed.

I guess you weren't listening, but public schools can't expell
kids. They simply go into a more expensive version of public
school that the taxpayer still has to fund. So in your scheme,
the public schools become dumping grounds for the problem (read,
'expensive') kids with one twist - they have less money than
before to educate them.

Im sure there will be Boot Camp type schools that will spring up for
problem children that will accept vouchers. It will really suck to be
an asshole child who wants to disrupt things.

I think those already exist. They keep having news stories about
them, where the kids are incarcerated in prison, outside of the
US.

The best of these that I've ever seen is NY state's "Challenge"
program. They run the kids through what looks like a version of
basic training up at Camp Smith. What happens when something
around here actually works? Yep, you got it. State funding
for that program got cut off.

Jim

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