Why no country world wide has a voucher syste, for schools.

[Rod Speed]

Lets assume that the US has a voucher system tomorrow and use some ballpark figures for the value of the voucher, say $10K per student.

Seems plausible that private schools should be able to borrow what they need to build the schools given that plenty would likely choose to use their voucher to use a private school.

Lets say that half the students currently attending govt schools choose to leave. Now the cost per student in a govt schools would be $20K per student and so the voucher would then be worth %20K, so even more would choose to move to a private school. But due to tenure, the govt teachers cant be sacked and the other costs of the govt schools still have to be paid.

Where is all that extra money going out in vouchers going to come from ?

It's just another mindless simplistic scheme that those with even the most basic education in arithmetic can see the problem with. Corse its not surprising that you lot with such lousy schools can't do simple arithmetic.

[angelicapaganelli]

Of course, nobody has mentioned the elephant in the room with respect to the voucher system:

It's quite popular among religious nutters who don't want their kids to be exposed to heresies such as science.

Cindy Hamilton

[Shadow]

Good article, thanks.

In Brazil you have to do an IQ test to get into a private school. It's to avoid bad results in the press. Public schools accept everyone.

Lets look at some numbers, private vs public universities:

66,3%% of all doctors from private universities failed their medical qualification exams in 2017. Private universities hire the cheapest teachers. They are for-profit. The doctors that passed were either self-taught or paid for out-of-school tuition. 26,4% of doctors from Public Universities** failed too, in the last exam (2015) before the coup cut funding and fired most of the good teachers. Still, the numbers speak for themselves.

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** High ranking civil servants, politicians and the military can get their children into public universities WITHOUT doing the "vestibular" (the Public University admittance exam), so that might account for most of the failures.

[devnull]

Laziness is as devastating as the Ebola virus.

The taxpayers I know don't want their children to pick up the Lazy Virus and various other bad behaviors from the democrat's kids.

[Rod Speed]

[e-mail] wrote

More of a cockroach than an elephant.

I don’t see that that is a major driver with this issue.

Not hard to see why plenty don’t see that they should have to pay a lot more tor their kids education in a private school than if they use a govt school.

[Rod Speed]

Shadow [e-mail] wrote

Its quite misleading with roman catholic and jewish schools.

Bet that's a lie with roman catholic schools.

The British did that too, working out which kids were unlikely to benefit from the more academic govt schools and which should go to the more trades oriented schools which used to be called 'secondary modern'

Nothing like that in the first world.

The first world doesn't have that either, it's the results achieved in the last year of high school that is used instead.

Even sillier and more one eyed than you usually manage given the failure rate with doctors in the first world.