Talk:Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 6/6.3.1

Reader Responses
(Please post your Reader Responses below this line and make sure to include your four tilde) I did not know very much about vouchers before reading these articles. From the reading though I have found that I am definately for vouchers in the school system. I thik children and parents being able to choose the school they attend will say alot about some school systems. If vouchers were issued the school who had a major drop in attendance could use this as a time to reevaluate their structure and lesson plans for theat school. Diversity will also play a large positive role in the schools systems if vouchers arre issued. Lwill031 (talk) 15:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I would really like to see more statistics on a much larger scale regarding whether vouchers will work or not. I am in favor of a voucher program. I have three children, the oldest of whom spent all but one year of school in public school. With public schools, there was no choice where he would attend. He qualified for the Gifted program but not all programs were equal at all public schools. He could have benefited so much more if he would have been in a good "gifted" program but that was not offered at his high school. My youngest two children have always attended a private school. We, as parents, had a choice where to send them and selected what we felt was the best school with the best opportunities for them. The cost is high but we have never regretted it. They are receiving the quality of education we feel is appropriate in a setting we feel is safe. Although I plan on teaching in a public school and I attended public school and was raised by public school teaching parents, I firmly believe not all public schools are equal. I feel so very fortunate that I can afford to send my youngest elsewhere and wish the same for all parents. I think competition for vouchers between public and private schools might improve many public schools. Sciaston (talk) 19:49, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I think a voucher program is, for the most part, an excellent idea. Private schools may be religious but that specific draw back, even to a decidedly secular man such as myself is not a major draw back in and of itself. This program would allow parents to have more direct control over their child's education, which is never bad. Not to mention the supposed "draw back" of causing already failing schools to tank is a bit perposterous. If the schools are failures to the point that so much of its student body is drawn away and sent to other institutions to receive a better education then perhaps it is better that the school does not exist at all. BitterAsianMan (talk) 11:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)