In a State With School Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them
In a State With School Vouchers For All, Low-Income Families Aren’t Choosing to Use Them
Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of transportation, meals and uniforms.
Its because these schools are all run by unscrupulous types. Yeah you get the voucher, good luck paying for tuition and the rest. Its clear this is a way to damage public schooling in my state while also giving a back handy to some friends. Axe that shit, and give the money to public schools. The only thing wrong with education is what we allow to happen by underfunding them
Aren't school vouchers just the extremists' way to get their religious indoctrination centers funded as public schools?
Yes. Religious parents would love to save money on tuition for their private schools, and they would love even more to take money away from public schools.
And some rich parents want to send their kids to expensive private schools because they think, possibly accurately, that some of those schools provide high quality education. So if you give them money, of course they're going to take it.
School vouchers suck.
I'm a huge fan of school choice, but to me, that means:
- multiple school options w/ no cost difference (so all tax funded, for example)
- sufficiently robust mass transit so kids can get to whatever school they want
- incentives for teachers to find a better fit for a student
"Vouchers" are a lazy approach here, and I would assume they would largely benefit wealthier families.
Teachers already have enough shit to do. How about properly staffed support positions like counselors to do that considering it's already part of their job?