In article , Fitch R. Williams
says...

I tend to agree that if the voucher system is put in place, it will,
over time, succeed in raising the cost of education at private schools
to about where it is now in public schools. Why? Because in no time at
all you will find all sorts of new regulations being imposed on the
private schools - they will be spending government money, and the
government will want to tell them "exactly" how they are to spend it,
and have in place "processes" to monitor that, and prevent fraud, etc.
Look at the welfare administration overhead - transfer that exact mind
set to administering voucher money (its the same government), and you
have the picture. It isn't pretty.

Yes. Over time, I think that vouchers will drag the private
schools *down* to public school levels. Once government is
giving money to private schools, there will be all kinds of
oversight associated with it.

One example might be the ADA compliant thing. That's one of those
regulations that public schools have to adhere to, private ones
don't. Now with vouchers, a parent comes along and says "my
kid wants to spend his voucher at your school, but he's in a wheel
chair. Could you please put in an elevator and remodel the
bathroom so he can attend?"

When the school says "No" then that's when a lawsuit happens.

The school would probably loose that suit. And then the pro
voucher folks will again decry the intrusion of big gummint
into private affairs! How ironic.

Jim

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