Should School vouchers be given out to lower income families to allow their kids to go to private schools?

Question

This would give opportunities to lower income families to send their kids to good schools and to escape from the disfuncitional inner city school systems that fail them every generation.

And for you Dems Barrak is against them McCain is for them.

Answer 1

Well h***s bells...Obama isn't so bad after all if that is so.

That would kind of defeat the point of private school in the first place.

I was poor and went to private school as were a lot of my classmates.   Our parents just sucked it up and tightened their belts to make it happen so we didn't have to go to inner city prison camps.

Entitlement and handouts have to end.  

Answer 2

Letting people choose where their kids attend school cannot possibly be argued to be a bad thing.  Being against vouchers for low income families is succumbing to the corrupt NEA and their bid to hang onto control of your tax dollars.

Answer 3

If the standards for school were set high everywhere - vouchers wouldn't be needed. Let's let the teachers teach, lets create an environment for all children to learn and lets hold parents responsible for their child being disruptive to the class.

Answer 4

Why? So the Republicans could add provisions that would lead to impossible qualification standards and then under fund it?

Answer 5

Yes. Because of the teachers union, you can't fire bad teachers.  

Answer 6

Darn Right !!! I pay a heck of a lot in property taxes that fund our schools and my income for my wife and I is so low, we aren't even required to file income tax returns. Shouldn't my grandkids have the opportunity to get a decent education, better than found in public schools ? Certainly, after we pay our taxes, there isn't money left over to help our family. Taking our money without giving us a chance to educate our young isn't right.

Answer 7

Tax credits should be given to anyone sending their kid to private school, but since low income families don't pay taxes they would receive a larger public check paid for by me and you.

Answer 8

Competition will close the bad schools and improve the good ones.  There's a reason some people fear competition, it's not because they excel.

Answer 9

NO!!! Government should rebuild the infrastructure and do what is needed to improve schools in our inner cities.

Answer 10

no make the parents be parents and help their urban dwellers to tresure education over reboks thats the only way to fix the problem

Answer 11

If we could only rid ourselves of the Unions, we wouldn't even need to do that.  Check out what Sweden does and yes, even though they're socialists, they're finding out that private industry is very effective:

HE REALITIES OF SCHOOL CHOICE

Sweden, of all places, is enjoying the fruits of a school choice system. Although Swedes are a true cradle-to-grave welfare society, their reformed system of school choice is gaining a lot of attention abroad. The program came to be in 1992 when a conservative government briefly had power. While that didn't last long, their school choice system did – it was so popular among Swedes that the opposing party kept the program once in retained power of the government.

The system is easy ... you decide what school you want to attend. What a concept! These "independent schools" can choose their own teaching methods, staff and manage their own buildings. And since the program was instituted back in 1992, the number of private high schools has increased from 1.7% to 17%.

Now, the schools in Sweden are still funded by the government – they aren't allowed to charge tuition. However, their government funding goes to private companies, which in turn run the schools and are able to keep whatever taxpayer money they save by running an efficient "business." Of course, the idea of evil corporations making a profit irks some Swedes. But in the end, these schools are growing rapidly. On the Stockholm Stock Exchange, the largest private school operator's net profit rose 33% to $3million in the first quarter of this year.

Answer 12

maybe not necessarily private schools but A public schools yes

My profile, sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.  There are failing schools in city's where they should be shut down.  Not all public schools are like this, many are excellent schools where children thrive, but the schools that r failing those children should have the right to go to a good school, private, or public.  Next time read the question