How many kids do you personally know from a "lib indoctrination factory"? It's weird that I know several kids who recently graduated from LPS and OPS and none are liberal. Strange. What's also strange is all the teachers I know are hard-core Republicans but one. The one who is liberal teaches in a small-town. Which is also in direct contrast to the stereotypes on here. It's almost as if people just generalize based on what they want to believe.they’ve been a thing for a couple decades now. Basic track record - they’re proven to be a success basically anywhere until libs become hysterical enough to legislate their removal. Teachers Unions, as I KNOW you’re aware, typically get what they want eventually just via a certain threshold of Volume and Hysteria.
They are established as an alternative to crap public schools, which AGREE (and as stated) are more often gonna be in bigger cities (keeping also in mind there are a LOT of smaller blue jurisdictions with equally shitty schools- LPS being an example)… the majority of students in the US are in cities. The majority of those schools are lib indoctrination factories.
School vouchers do NOT cost the taxpayer (you) anymore money, as far as I know. I’ll be wrong on that if anyone here wants to prove otherwise; wouldn’t change my opinion otherwise. Saving kids doesn’t have a price, IMHO. They’re just removing the money from the public coffers and giving it as a voucher that parents can spend at a better, private school.
I went to public and then private for part of HS (1980s/90s)… it wasn’t expensive. I just had to drive. Basically changed my life by learning some very basic good study habits that I’d NEVER have gotten from public school. Fact. Better habits, better prepped for college = better chance higher education turns out to be a good investment. Look how often parents/kids waste money on college degrees anymore? (Woke studies don’t pay for shit, ever…)
Yeah it’s harder for inner city kids. Parenting sucks, good teachers don’t wanna teach there… if nothing else privatization would allow what basically becomes a business to get rid of ineffective teachers or those with a political axe to grind, and replace them for someone with their shit together and pay them WHAT THEY’RE WORTH, which is I’m sure a helluva lot MORE than what they’d be getting from Gubmint. What good teachers are getting paid is a travesty. What shitty teachers are getting paid is a true waste of taxpayer money, and should be a crime.