It’s obvious that you have no idea how the voucher program would work. In a voucher system, each child is given a specific amount of money that can be used for either public or private school. So if I want to send my child to a private school, I apply the voucher towards tuition. If the voucher covers the amount, then I’m fine. If it doesn’t, then I have to pony up the difference. No one would have to pay more in taxes to make the difference.

So let’s say I want to send my kid to Private Academy and I have a voucher for $5k and tuition is $7k – I either need to pay the $2k difference or apply for a scholarship.

Every student gets the same amount – regardless of where they live or what school they want to go to.

And BTW – we already “foot the bill” for education. Each school gets a certain amount of money for the students from both the state and local governments. Federal government kicks in money for special needs students and ELL students. The average is about $7k per child. Public education is not free as many believe. In some cases, public education costs MORE than private education, if the student has special needs.

Private schools have regulations that they have to follow in order to be considered a school in the state of Virginia. The private schools have to justify their tuition, so as not to price gauge or be elitist.

Tom is absolutely correct about poor neighborhoods having the worst schools. Vouchers would allow parents to send their child to a private school or even to a better public school within the same district.

Because you brought it up! LOL!

Why are you demanding that I do something nobody else has ever done? Can you show me any government program that cannot and will not ever be abused?

If I had my druthers I would slowly scrap the public school system and only support educational subsidies (in this case educational vouchers), that targeted the children of poor parents. And I think the children of poor parents would benefit immensely. Why? Poor neighborhoods have the worst public schools. Poor parents cannot afford to live in areas that have relatively good schools.

Until we have scrapped the public school system and as long as public schools exist, ALL parents should have the option of taking money that would otherwise be spent on the public schools and spending it on the school(s) of their choice.

Choice is the essence of freedom. When a People calls itself free, it is because people have choices. When a People is in bondage, it is because their slave masters insist upon choosing for them.

To make sure people aren’t asking for more and more tax money to pay for vouchers for over-priced schools, how would you, in your proposed voucher plan, make sure abuses like that didn’t happen? There would have to be SOME way because as you point out, “Even in the United States, we have arrogant abuses of power.”