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Ezra Klein tells why school vouchers don't work...
white parents fleeing pockets of poverty is not an argument for school vouchers. What they're fleeing is the poverty -- which, at a certain density, dissolves just about any school. If everyone had a voucher, there would still be concentrated poverty in DC, and thus in its schools, and white parents would still move away so they could easily send their kids to other schools. What they're seeking is economic segregation, not school choice. And the way you achieve that is move away from poor areas. Which is something that school vouchers would not, sadly, allow poor families to do.Instead of school vouchers, we need to do something to end poverty.
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Have we not tried to end poverty? How much have we spent to end poverty? Would it not been cost effective to just give those people the money instead of going through the red tape our government creates?
I am not a teacher and my kids attend public school. However, I can see how vouchers would permit parents to make a choice to send kids to a better school. Our public school system is not something to cheer about, rather we should trash it and start over!
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