Comment on Florida’s private school vouchers soar, creating concern over impact on public schools
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoRural tends to spend less per student. Schools are funded by local taxes for the majority of the expenditures. When most your population is below poverty level income, you just don’t want the tax base. You also can’t get private schools to compete for the 10 kids in the class. So that’s one scenario I don’t know what the right answer is.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But even though you don’t know the answer you’re okay with defunding the current solution because you don’t agree with it?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Since they’d still have public school, their situation would stay the same but it would improve the education of millions of poor minority children.
I think that’s a good thing.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But every parent that you supply with vouchers takes money out of the public system until it collapses.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Or it improves. It’s their choice. Right now public schools have a monopoly and vouchers break that monopoly. They can either improve or fail.
Either way the children benefit with a better education and that is what is important.