Should Cities and States Adopt School Voucher Programs?

Should Cities and States Adopt School Voucher Programs?

School vouchers come in many forms, but all of them would provide parents with money to spend on the schools of their choice. We all want to provide our children with the best education possible -- but are voucher programs tools of change or misguided panaceas?

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Should Cities and States Adopt School Voucher Programs?
  • joelinda
    It's about Parents Rights, not Religious Right

    The whole line of reasoning that this is a religious right issue is bogus. This is simply a parent's rights issue, period. Yes, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and people of many other faiths are extremely concerned about their children's education. But trying to argue that this concern makes the issue a religious issue simply demonstrates how poorly educated the so called "no" experts are. Vouchers put the power of choice into the hands of parents and wrests it away from politicians. If you were a kid would you rather have a parent decide things for you or would you want to be a ward of the state? Granted, the public education system has been broken for so long that many of the parents are poorly equiped to make the decisions. Is that the "no" voters position? Continue the cycle because it is broken? Absurd!!

    - joelinda July 25, 2008 11:59AM

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