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1. Private schools
offer superior education. According to some studies, math and reading proficiency
at private schools is significantly higher than at public schools. Our nation's publicly-run
schools are in a state of ruin, failing miserably to properly educate the leaders
of tomorrow and private schools are the only hope for parents who want their children
to receive a decent education.
2. Vouchers help parents afford an otherwise too-expensive education. Presently,
only children from wealthy families can afford the benefits of a private education.
Publicly funded vouchers would eliminate this unjust disparity and allow for children
in low-income homes to get a good education, too.
3. Choice saves tax-payer dollars in the end. Public school education can
cost a great deal more on a per-capita basis than private school education. Under
a voucher system, the private institutions would be able to achieve superior educational
benefits for a lower cost. Billions would be saved annually as ever more children
transfer from public to private schools.
4. Vouchers ensure the survival of private schools. Enrollment in private
schools declines as the discretionary income of lower- and middle-income families
declines. Their inability to send their children to private schools threatens the
future of private schools, especially parochial schools in the cities. Vouchers from
public funds would allow these institutions to survive.
5. Overcrowding in public schools would lessen. Public school enrollment all
over the country, especially in states like California, is increasing dramatically
and will only get worse, straining an already desperate situation. Private and parochial
schools have room for additional students and, if allowed, could help ease the crisis.
6. Competition will force improvement in public schools. Under a free-market
system, the brightest students will go to the best schools, which are presently private
schools. In order to stop such an exodus, public schools will have to do a better
job at competing with what private schools offer, and that means dramatically improving
what they offer. Outmoded teaching methods and bloated beauracracies will have give
way, as they inevitably must do in free markets.
7. Vouchers will relieve parents of double-taxation. Every parent who sends
their children to a private school is essentially paying a double-tax. The first
is for the public schools which they do not use, the second is for the private schools
which they do use. It is inherently unfair for families to have to pay twice for
a service, especially when they do not use the publicly offered service. Vouchers
would rectify this situation by returning money to parents for use at private institutions.
8. Private schools will improve the morals of the nation's youth. Public schools
are morally degenerate, failing to provide our nation's youth with proper guidance.
This can be directly tied to the elimination of school prayer and Bible reading in
the 1960's by atheists and secular humanists. Vouchers will allow poorer families
to send their children to religious schools where children will be able to enjoy
genuine religious freedom.
They'll have daily prayers, Bible reading and no immoral or anti-religious education. We won't see any violent shootings or massacres at private religious schools as we have at public schools. Our nation will be vastly improved with the development of a new generation of moral children.
9. Voucher programs which do not include religious schools are unconstitutional.
If a voucher program is created, it has to allow for parents to choose to send their
children to private religious schools as well as private non-religious schools. Otherwise,
the government will be discriminating against religious institutions and religious
parents, a clear violation of the Constitution. Religion must be treated equally
alongside secular institutions.
10. Voucher programs will not violate the separation of church and state.
Voucher programs do not have to force the government to give money to religious schools
The government can give parents the money, and they in turn will be free to give
the money to either religious or secular educational institutions. No money will
be transferred directly from government to churches, thus eliminating separationist
complaints.
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