How to Understand School Vouchers

I can see both sides of the voucher debate. For those of you who do not know about proposed school vouchers--here it goes. The government would be able to give every family a voucher of roughly $2,500 per child (once they are of school age) to go toward private school tuition.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• An open mind

1. Consider whether vouchers would create a mass exodus of public education students into private schools. Maybe that exodus would benefit public schools by decreasing overcrowding, which is one of the major problems.
2. Consider that vouchers would create the much-needed competition that the public schools have never had. What has been the motivation for public schools to excel? They have never had any competition.
3. Admit that vouchers would draw money away from public education, however, at some point we have to realize that money may not be the answer to solving our public education woes. I would compare the problems in public education to the cure for cancer in that it's very possible that we could throw all the money in the world at the problem and it would possibly not fix it.