The idea is that public schools should be made good, the government should not be reducing the use of public schools. A good public schooling system is incredibly important for a functioning democracy, because a functioning democracy relies on a well educated citizenry.
> A good public schooling system is incredibly important for a functioning democracy, because a functioning democracy relies on a well educated citizenry.
A good schooling system is necessary, but must it be public?
It's important that it be affordable to everyone, regardless of wealth. If it's private with public funding and a profit motive, that messes things up pretty hard - see what's been happening with college tuitions and unlimited lines of public credit.
> It's important that it be affordable to everyone, regardless of wealth.
That's the whole point of giving each child's parents that child's share of public-education funds.
> If it's private with public funding and a profit motive, that messes things up pretty hard - see what's been happening with college tuitions and unlimited lines of public credit.
Teachers' and administrators' salaries are private profits from public funding, too.
You are, of course, correct that private schools would see the voucher amount as a price floor.
I think that there are bigger issues with collegiate funding, which have to do that people borrow from their futures (backed by public funds) in order to pay for near-term benefits for themselves. I'd have lived much more frugally in college had I internalised that I'd be paying those funds back.
