School vouchers

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7. I generally think Republican-generated ideas are bad for humans.

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It's a band-aid on a problem that needs a blood-transfusion.

With robust funding of our public school system, all of our schools could be wonderful schools. Vouchers take money from already hurting school systems and reduce the pool of money that could be used with the remaining children--plus the amount on the voucher isn't really enough to cover all of the expenses of private education.

At any rate, the right-wing is pretty frank that they want vouchers to reduce demand for public schools and have the whole system disappear. I don't think that was ever a secret.

Post I did two years ago about this very thing: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8471844