Originally Posted by brandonstills

US Public Education is pathetic compared to other modern industrialized countries. Especially when you consider educational value per dollar spent. Why force taxpayers to pay for a system that doesn't work? Don't reward incompetence. It only allows it to grow.

With vouchers there is competition. Monopolies are only good for the owner of the monopoly. If you don't want to send your kid to religious schools then don't. Likewise don't force others to send their kids to schools that produce more "snowflakes" than well prepared and educated critical thinkers.

And how the hell does it cost $11K a year to educate a student? Use some technology please. The cost of replication in a digital economy approaches $0. You could spend more than all the blockbuster movies combined to make some really engaging multimedia education courses and give students a brand new laptop every year and still be well under $11K per student.

A system that can't properly educate a student for $11K a year needs to die and make way for a system that can.

Hell, you can even get rid of schools altogether and pay students up to $5K a year based on how well they pass the tests and they will probably learn better than with no schools whatsoever. They will form their own tutoring and schools and probably be a hell of a lot better than public education.

Vouchers reward schools that can successfully educate children and punish those that can't.