Reply #160: Vouchers violate nothing

[Muddleoftheroad]

Except your sensibilities. If I send my child elsewhere, I am saving the school system the money that it takes to educate my kid. The vouchers are a PARTIAL rebate for that.

Again, if you don't like paying them, then imagine what would happen if all of those parents you care so little about actually sent their kids to public school for a bit. What would happen?

Yes, there are baseline expenses in any operation. But more children means more expenses -- especially teachers.

As for DC spending, I've brought it up before. Here we go again:

http://www.miedresearchoffice.org/nationalfacts.htm#_U.S._per-pupil_spending_1

It shows DC at No. 3 behind New Jersey and Wisconsin for overall spending, with $11,649 per pupil. Even adjusted for cost of living, it is still ranked No. 13 at $8,745 per pupil.

At the end you say some things I agree with and others I don't. You focus on the past glories of the education system. That system has failed minorities in the U.S. Not a little. Almost entirely.

Too many people on this board and in this thread look at things through the white picket fence of suburbia and don't see the realities of inner city life.