Private schools have the option of not taking the children with discipline problems and not taking the children with low test scores, thus the difference in price and test scores. I am completely against a voucher system unless private schools play by the exact same rules as the public system, which they would never choose to take on. If the public schools had the option of eliminating the bottom of the gene pool I bet those test scores would be a whole lot closer. I have nothing against private schools but the argument about how well they could do with so little is comparing apples to oranges
Nikegundog,
If you had a business and it was having record sells year after year and you had another business that lost money year after year, would you make the better business implement the polices of the business that is losing money? Shouldn't our children mean more to us than some business?
If you have a kid that continually disrupts class day after day, does his right not to get an education override the other 24 kid’s right to get a good education? The number one key for a good education is discipline, without it your schools will not succeed. There is corporal punishment at my children’s school and it starts in K-4 and the funny thing is I never hear of any kid getting a paddling. There are problems but when they arise they are dealt with even if that means being expelled without the ability to return. My kids do not have to worry about gangs in the bathrooms or hallways they are not allowed to walk down.
Vouchers would allow good parents with low income to send their kids to a good school. Money will not fix the schools problem and more money will not help it either. Look at the money spent on education in the last 50 years and the system is still trending down. I see education as a level field where if a kid works hard and learns they can do whatever they want with their life.