VOUCHER
PROS AND CONS
PROS
- Gives the opportunity to all parents to choose school of their choice
- Pressures failing schools to get better
- Gives low income children a way out of public schools with bad environments
- Ends public school monopoly
CONS
- Takes money away from public schools
- Decrease in services available to public school children
- Public funds going to perochial schools. Violation of separation of church and state?
- Vouchers treat learning like a commodity, and a free market doesn't always work in a interest of the consumer
- Private schools have liitle or no accountability, which could lead to corruption
- Undesirable groups can start their own school that will receive public funding
- They divert attention from much needed reforms, such as smaller class sizes
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