Florida’s private school vouchers soar, creating concern over impact on public schools

www.miamiherald.com /news/local/education/article290764984.html

An important question this article ignores, is why private school vouchers are chosen over public schools?

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Taxpayer money should only be used for public schools.
Vouchers and the illusion of choice are simply there to defund the public school system and remove choice for big swatches of people that can’t afford private school.
I think if you do want to send your kids to a private school it should be with your own money.
- How do you figure vouchers are the "illusion" of choice? Do they not provide real, actual choice?
- What happens when all schools are more expensive then the vouchers? We saw that happen with higher education, where reducing the state funded option has put the cost of college out of reach for many. Is the idea going forward that education will not be guaranteed?
  
  Are you implying that only those who attend private school are the future, and public school attendees are not?
  
  Why do you want to defund public schools instead of improving them?
It's partly a push to privatize all schools and partly a tactic to get public funding for religious schools. Why should a secular government pay for religious schooling? Mostly it's about privitizing.
School privitization is a purely ideological fever dream of Milton Friedman who believed that profit driven free markets are the most efficient at doing everything, and that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. This makes sense for widget factories and pottery barns, but not public services, not childcare and not the education of a nation's citizens. Efficiency is not the most important metric of success if it means making services unaffordable or unavailable to portions of the public. A profit seeking school could deny service to learning disabled or neurodivergent children. Trying to make a profit in cases like this would probably mean more government intervention, and the results are usually less beneficial to the public than the government services provided in the first place. Anyway, private schools aren't any better than public schools. https//wwwjacksonville.com/story/special/special-sections/2018/07/27/study-private-schools-not-better-at-educating-kids/11260129007/
https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/21/opinion-school-choice-is-a-scam-designed-to-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-students/
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2018/8/9/21107311/students-math-scores-drop-for-years-after-using-a-private-school-voucher-in-country-s-largest-progra/
Isn't this interesting
You should really read up more about how student loans caused the cost of college to grow so fast.
In simple terms, they pumped more money into the system. For grade school, if private schools can charge families 10k per student, if you introduce 7k vouchers, then the schools know they can charge closer to 17k. It would be silly to not leverage the vouchers as a means to siphon government money.
Our socialist friends don't understand shopping reduces prices and increases quality through competition. There is no socialist solution to fix bureaucracy.

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