Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of transportation, meals and uniforms.
Given that these vouchers seem to be in effect subsidizing more well-off, ditch the vouchers. As a parent in a good school system, I did send my kids to private school on my own dime. I would never vote for vouchers because I understand it benefits people like me at the expense of the public school system. I’ll always vote to strengthen that. Granted I’d use the vouchers if they were there, I’m not stupid, but they shouldn’t be there.
But I understand the issue: we chose private schools exactly because the one size fits all approach really doesn’t, even in a good school system, and we felt that our kids would be better served with more focussed attention.
I don’t have a good answer but starving your public school is not it. Starving your public school and feeding the better off is very much not it. For your question: we so have public vo-tech schools and I know a kid taking that route in another district. It can be done. I don’t know it well enough to comment on effectiveness, but it exists
Given that these vouchers seem to be in effect subsidizing more well-off, ditch the vouchers. As a parent in a good school system, I did send my kids to private school on my own dime. I would never vote for vouchers because I understand it benefits people like me at the expense of the public school system. I’ll always vote to strengthen that. Granted I’d use the vouchers if they were there, I’m not stupid, but they shouldn’t be there.
But I understand the issue: we chose private schools exactly because the one size fits all approach really doesn’t, even in a good school system, and we felt that our kids would be better served with more focussed attention.
I don’t have a good answer but starving your public school is not it. Starving your public school and feeding the better off is very much not it. For your question: we so have public vo-tech schools and I know a kid taking that route in another district. It can be done. I don’t know it well enough to comment on effectiveness, but it exists