Comments on: School Vouchers in Utah http://www.logipundit.com/2007/02/school-vouchers-in-utah.html A Bastion of Reason Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: JohnnyB http://www.logipundit.com/2007/02/school-vouchers-in-utah.html#comment-1933 JohnnyB Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.logipundit.com/blog/?p=1613#comment-1933 As usual I agree with Rip 1000% on the ideals, but sense that vouchers may be the only solution anti-choice opponents won't kill in the crib. If private schools have additional tuition paid by the parents they should be all right. The barn door is kind of open, though, who's to say parent x should get a tuition waiver when parent y was paying full tuition. Why can't parent Y get the same deal? Thing is, even if you charge 30$ a month for schooling, the same price as a cable bill, a majority of the families will take the garbage-level education for free over high-end education for 30$/month. As usual I agree with Rip 1000% on the ideals, but sense that vouchers may be the only solution anti-choice opponents won’t kill in the crib. If private schools have additional tuition paid by the parents they should be all right. The barn door is kind of open, though, who’s to say parent x should get a tuition waiver when parent y was paying full tuition. Why can’t parent Y get the same deal? Thing is, even if you charge 30$ a month for schooling, the same price as a cable bill, a majority of the families will take the garbage-level education for free over high-end education for 30$/month.

]]> By: Rip http://www.logipundit.com/2007/02/school-vouchers-in-utah.html#comment-1932 Rip Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:57:00 +0000 http://www.logipundit.com/blog/?p=1613#comment-1932 Forget Microsoft. Forget the Sirius/XM merger. The public school system is THE MONOPOLY that we need to go after, for the sake of our children. <br/><br/>However, vouchers are not the best answer, as they still require money running through the government and in the end would likely result in all schools being "public" in the critical sense that their existence depends on "public" dollars. Here's a better idea - make school like auto insurance. I'm required to buy it, but I can pick who to buy it from. And the money doesn't flow through the government coffers. Forget Microsoft. Forget the Sirius/XM merger. The public school system is THE MONOPOLY that we need to go after, for the sake of our children.

However, vouchers are not the best answer, as they still require money running through the government and in the end would likely result in all schools being “public” in the critical sense that their existence depends on “public” dollars. Here’s a better idea - make school like auto insurance. I’m required to buy it, but I can pick who to buy it from. And the money doesn’t flow through the government coffers.

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