Vouchers

It was definitely an interesting class period. Maybe I'm a little weird, but I was raised to be against vouchers. I remember talking with my parents at a relatively young age about the importance of public schools and the effect of vouchers on the surrounding public system. It is a joke to say that the 'competition' created by vouchers enhances the public school system. IF vouchers have had this effect anywhere, it is the exception not the norm. Vouchers take much needed public funding away from usually underfunded schools. 

I consider it to be the moral responsibility of the people in a community to take care of each other, and that means making sure that the community's children get a fair chance at an education. Funding private schools is not the answer to this. If traditional public education is failing, it is the parents', teachers/school administration and the government's responsibility to figure out the problem and fix it. It is a collaborative effort, not just falling on one group to solve all of the problems. Everyone deserves a chance at an equal education, at least at a basic K-12 level.

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A side note:

Someone addressed that the government can't support religion or support no religion. Legitimately, I do not use separation of church and state as my argument here. IF we have to have vouchers (we don't, but IF we do for some reason), we simply need to fund both religious AND non-religious schools, and dictate where the support goes by an religiously-unbiased selection, such as geography. This will prevent the government from violating anything constitutional.