Should we begin offering vouchers to parents for their kids to attend the school of the parents choice before?

Question

or after gold and silver currency begin running in parallel with the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE? I'm not kidding. :)

I say after. Why? Because it will begin to give the true means of "exchange" back to the ppl as well.

There's nothing communistic about it. This in fact would spell disaster for socialism if we did this.

Mommanuke: spoken like a true socialist. "channeled. LOL!!! What a fricken joke!!!

Just some chick: Huh. Though your opinion differs with that of mine on education, i will say i kinda liked your answer on the latter part of your response. Quite to the point as well. I like it. ;)

Answer 1

I would tend to support the voucher idea, in place of the non-uniform school taxes if the vouchers are big enough to allow the kids to attend the schools the parents wish, subject to the limitations of size of schools and classes. I presume there will be some jockeying as the system breaks in.

It will encourage academic excellent by rewarding the schools that excel in various areas and so draw more students. It should also encourage the arts for those so inclined, which benefits our society, and the exact sciences, which are lagging badly.

Witness how many people cannot see any of the fallacies in Al Gore's terror movie, and how many see no problem with his lavish wasteful lifestyle in the USA while he demands that Africans die in droves in hospitals that have not enough energy allowed to them to even keep a refrigerator running for perishable medicines.

There will be some problems with the good schools filling up, and there will need to be some method of making sure that the rich do not pull strings, until the schools themselves get their acts together and become competitive.. Possibly the best way is to use a flat-rate %age of gross-income tax on all the people, and all public schools be priced the same per credit unit, and ONLY accept vouchers, so parental riches can only get private schools.

Home schools should be supported adequately, also, and should have to show that their students meet the minimum core courses competency same as the public schools, by examination along with the public school students.

There will be administrative problems, and the problems of securing good teachers for all the schools, and making sure students are given an environment conducive to good studies and outside interference is kept outside; administrative problems I am sure if we really look at them.

But the basic idea is good for all, except uninspired bureaucrats, political hacks, and those who fear an intelligent and educated populace!

I do not care if we are using rubber dollars for currency, we need the whole school system made right and now or sooner. It simply is NOT working to produce enlightened and functional US citizens, speaking our single national language with fluency and understanding.

There are probably other ways to achieve this, and still not interfere with neighborhood education and private education, but this seems to me to be the easiest and quickest to implement, and might in the end be the cheapest and most equal we can get.

So yes, start the vouchers and the support systems absolutely as soon as possible, and even the playing field, so we produce the best educated citizens for our nation. Everywhere.

Answer 2

McCain wants parents to have the right to use the tax money they've paid to choose the school that gives the best education to their children. The Democrat Teacher's Union forced gov't educational system is wrong and incompetent and people should have a right to choose where they want their children educated. Republicans believe parents know what is best for their children far better than someone in Washington DC that has never met the child. Republicans believe Monopolies are bad and competition is good. The gov't forced Democrat school system is a horrible monopoly and needs to be changed. Any idea to do this is a step in the right direction. Obama represented the Chicago Public School system. I live in the Chicago area and we have one of the worst and most expensive school systems in the country. Ask yourself how this can be with a Democrat Mayor, Democrat School Superintendent, Democrat Governor, Democrat House, Democrat Senate, Democrat County, both Senators are Democrats and one claims he's for change! If you can tell me anything he changed in Illinois when his party has complete control I would love to hear it because I live the fact that he's a fraud and lie. Our children suffer due to this. Don't extend this to a federal level.

Answer 3

I'm surprised by the answer stating that vouchers shouldn't be allowed because all parents will want their kids to go to the best school. Exactly! That's the mechanism which would motivate all schools to improve in an effort to attract more students. In a voucher system the only way to receive funding is to attract students. Choice and competition rewards excellence.

This point has been made by others, but a great example of this is grocery stores. Grocery stores in America are phenomenal. You can pretty much get whatever you want. Can you imagine what they would look like if you were forced to shop in a government grocery store based on whatever district you lived in? People buying real estate would ask, "how are the stores?" It's the fact that grocery stores have to compete with one another that drives them all to provide the best selection possible. Stores have to be good in order to attract customers and stay in business.

In education, parents are the customers. And the vast majority of parents want their kids to attend the best school possible. Again, this forces schools to be the best that they can in order to compete. Would some schools be better than others? Of course! But why stick with a system that produces schools that range from poor to mediocre at best in the interest of uniformity?

Vouchers don't have to be the perfect system in order to make sense, they only have to be substantially better than what we have now...and I think that would be the result.

Answer 4

We should begin giving vouchers out to parents ASAP. This is the only way to bring our childrens education up to par with the rest of the world. Every year we throw more and more money at the D.O.E. and the teachers union to bring up our kids education standards, yet every year they get worse and more kids drop out. Vouchers would seriously help out in poor inner city areas where the public schools are terrible. Which in turn would help out inner city minoritiy and poor children get the education they need to climb out of poverty. Let the free market bring our education up. It works in every other aspect, just so long as the government doesn't stick it's nose in it with unending regulations and price controls.

Of course we should always keep public schools around for those that can't afford anymore than the voucher gives to parents.

Answer 5

No they shouldn't. All parents are going to pick the "best" school, so only the first ones (or the rich ones) will get in.

There should be gold and silver currency. You can't even trade in your money for gold like you could a few decades ago. It's like our money is worth nothing except to buy stuff you probably don't need.

If I want to go around carrying a sack of diamonds I should be able to use that to buy a car or something.

Answer 6

Any program like this or any other for that matter which does not change the basic structure of our educational system is nothing but a bandaid. The system here is structured to fail because we assume that everyone in the country needs and wants the same level of education. Education should be split up into basic education for everyone, like reading and basic arithmetic, and then people would be channeled either to continuing academic education or vocational training. Otherwise, you have a large section of the population forced to sit through education they are not interested in which takes attention away from those who actually do want to learn further academics.

Edit: So it's not socialist to force people into a non-functioning system for 12 years?!

Answer 7

I'm all for school vouchers on the state level, and just dump the feds part in education.

Answer 8

give everyone money for school?

what are you a commie???????