School Vouchers are a Bad Idea

Explaining various reasons why any liberty-minded individual should be against vouchers.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• school
• vouchers
• education
• meritt
• incentive
• privatize
• government
• taxes
• objectivism
• libertarianism
• market
• anarchism

[Scholarshipmoneynow]

Go listen to Dr. Walter Williams, a lifelong economist explain it. THEN tell me school vouchers are bad... Competition breeds success... For everyone... Just go search for "The Case for School Vouchers" by Liberty Pen or just search for "Walter E. Williams school vouchers" and you'll find many results

[XOmniverse]

@Scholarshipmoneynow I don't think you understand my position. I don't want any public funding of education at all.

[Reason1600]

Why would we ever want to give students and parents options about which school to attend? Why would we EVER want to allow poor inner-city black kids to receive a decent education? Why would we ever want to make schools accountable to parents rather than a government bureaucrat?

[XOmniverse]

@Reason1600 You're giving an emotional appeal. Nothing you said actually addresses the points I made in the video.

[Reason1600]

@XOmniverse I was a little sarcastic, but my points are not emotional. They point out why school vouchers would be a good idea, so it does address your video.

[XOmniverse]

@Reason1600 If you want to address the video, explain how the predictions I make in the video are wrong and why they are wrong. You really did just give an emotional "think of the children!" response.

[utubehayter]

@brandog334

"Lets face it"? What a bunch of crap? This is exactly why vouchers should be opposed. You have to take one step at a time? You call it "one-step", sensible people call it rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic in an attempt to prevent the sinking of the ship.

[quesadillacream]

Love the "think of the children" line! How many times do we hear that BS!? I like your opinion. I think vouchers would be an improvement over the current system, but the oversight of government would remain. Privatize it all. Apparently, we did it this way for the first half of the country's existence and got better results. Government doesn't have a responsibility to educate anyway...or shouldn't.

[brandog334]

Yes, it is not an ideal solution. But lets face it, we are not ever going to have the ideal solution of privately run everything.

It is like saying no to the legalization of marijuana simply because the rest of the drugs won't be legalized. You have to take things one step at a time.

[betatalk357]

@Reason1600 Primary and Secondary schools? Are you a Brit trying to talk about American schools? Over here, we have Elementary School, Middle School and High School.

[betatalk357]

@Reason1600 That's how they offset education costs for people with several kids in school. Whether you have 1, 2, or 3 kids, it'll still cost $7,500 annually (And that's being generous and sending ALL property taxes to school). If they gave you a voucher for $9,000 (what they calculated as to be the cost of educating 1 child), where are you going to come up with the remaining $18,000? Inner city people are poor and the taxpayer refuses to pay higher taxes to send YOUR kids to better schools.

[betatalk357]

@Scholarshipmoneynow Trust me, a private entities' services/ products can always get worse. Lehman Brothers, Fannie and Freddie, GM and Chrysler....etc. They are a business and are beholden to THE STOCKHOLDER, NOT THE PARENTS. They'll do anything shy of giving you a blowjob to get that voucher out of your hands, then after that, who gives a fuck? What, are you going to sue the school you gave the voucher to because you didn't like their education? Well, they did "school" your kid...

[betatalk357]

@Reason1600 Lord knows I HATED going to fucking school in my childhood. Public, private, or parochial, it wouldn't have mattered. I hate getting up in the morning. Reading tiny ass print in big ass books hurts my eyes. And I already lost focus of what the asshole author was trying to say because he kept droning on and on about stupid shit for 4 paragraphs, didn't get to the point, then switches up the subject for the next 4 paragraphs.

[betatalk357]

@Reason1600 When you make parents accountable for their actions and how they raise their kids and make kids accountable for their upbringing, THEN you make a better society. A society more adept to WANT to learn. Teaching people's no good if they don't want to learn.

[betatalk357]

@Scholarshipmoneynow So long as the truant officer isn't knocking on their door to lock them up for missing too much school, why should they give a fuck how well they do on a test score?

[betatalk357]

@Scholarshipmoneynow Kids in the inner cities have fucked up families who don't help them focus on education and stay away from trouble. Because all they see is a struggle in school, then a struggle in college, and for what? A mediocre, shitty paying job and a life spent paying taxes and never having anything? When they're on the street, they get to hang out with their friends, do what they want, make a nice living selling drugs (which don't need an education).