passed a school voucher law for all students.
GOOD!
I'm not going to post a long drawn out affair and describe the law itself. You can easily Google it. Still, it has certainly put the squeeze on the Texas public school system to start to shape up and fly right.
The usual naysayers are babbling that it is going to hurt the public school system and take money from it and so on and so forth but it's far more apt to force public education to improve simply by creating competition over education.
Around here we supposedly have a good education system and I hear the term prestigious North Allegheny School System thrown around a lot in this neck of the woods. Maybe it is, maybe it's not but around here I deal with teenagers that can't make change.
Public schools have held a semi-monopoly on education for too damned long. They have gotten too slack an institutionalized.
Thanks to the now disappearing Department of education they have gotten sidetracked and it looks now like social issues take precedence to the basic 3 Rs.
Private schools are a serious stretch on a family's budget and now with the voucher law enacted it will mean that a non government education can be had by virtually everyone.
A cursory search tells me that Catholic schools are a pretty good bang for the buck and that about one in five students attending Catholic schools are non Catholic. Tuition seems reasonable and a voucher will probably cover it completely.
Anyway the big thing now is that the public schools are going to have to sharpen their pencils and smarten up if they want to keep students because now there is competition in town.
My issue with school vouchers is not in the concept, but in the application. Supply and demand remains undefeated.
ReplyDeleteIf each family has, say, $5000 extra dollars to go toward education, what will the cost of private school do? That's right, go up $5001.
Yes and no. The public schools will still be there to provide a certain level of competition.
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