Vouchers for private schools

The more property you own the more school taxes you pay. Is that not correct?
I don't know how much it costs, on average, to pay for a student to attend public schools, but I do know it costs more to go to private schools.
Since vouchers should never be for more than the cost of public schools, in spite of the fact that some pay more school tax than others and maybe have more kids, I still think that amount would only be legitimate. Can't see a rich person getting larger vouchers than poor people.
Now, in my opinion, more rich people's kids, (rich defined as being able to afford private school) by far, attend private school. These people want some of their tax money back, as vouchers, to help pay for the private school.
I fear this situation. It would seem to me that if minorities were to also be able to get vouchers also, that they could begin their own private schools and we are back to segregation again!
We would have rich private schools and poor private schools!

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Submitted by faux_paws on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 11:23am.

vouchers would most likely be distributed evenly...rich people would not get more money for their vouchers, no one is proposing that and if they are,i haven't heard it yet...

no no,vouchers are evil for other reasons because it's privatizing the education system. there will still be the usual 10,000$ a year private school and maybe 7,000$ voucher, so people couldn't send their kids to those schools...instead someone else would step in and basically schools would become sponsored/ran by major companies and subsidized...you would have chic fil a middle and boost mobile elementary...

the reason vouchers are evil is because it's giving government money to private institutions...that is, tax payer money would be going to an individual business for which there was little competition.

the government cuts funds for the schools that don't meet the no child left behind act and the schools then do worse...hmmmm...i wonder if cutting funding and paying teachers poorly has anything to do with poor performance...

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Submitted by mudcat on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 6:30pm.

I'm not sure which prize to give her (yes, it has to be a her), but the category for the prize is the "Dumbest thing I have ever read on here". Sure, there was lots of competition, but look at her crap.

All I can do is answer 2 of her questions and ask another.
1. It costs $7,000 per year to educate one student in the Fayette County public schools.
2. Owning property does not add to the cost of the school system. Having many children does.

How about we charge families with 6 kids twice as much as we charge families with 3 kids? Does that seem fair to you?


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mudcat
Submitted by Nitpickers on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 8:35pm.

Dunbest thing?
I didn't say what it cost for a student in Fayette! That varies according to the budget, not necessarily the number of students.
Are you indicating that we all pay the same amount of school taxes--no matter how much real estate we own?
Are we to penalize people with more children than others?
Think things through a little!

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