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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I'm really torn on vouchers. I'm not sure they wouldn't have the effect of making the great schools more crowded and the bad schools worse.
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One of the givens for vouchers is school capacity. Good school X has classrooms suitable for 800 kids. There are 500 neighborhood kids who go there based on housing, so there are 300 spots for voucher kids.
Kid #301 and up have to go somewhere else.
Other schools would seek these Kids, and might say "give us a try - we are upgrading to attract more voucher kids by strengthening our foreign lang. program, requiring more math, instituting a 'if you're absent more than 5 days, you flunk' policy", or what ever they choose and whatever they think will attract voucher kids.
If a school reaches capacity, it gets full compensation from the school bd. for all 800 kids.
If a school is unable to attract the 800 kids, and only has 700, the school loses the money and has to eliminate four teachers and two coaches and two cooks, cuts back on fancy uniforms for the football team and cheerleaders, etc. It is also motivated to come up with plans and programs that will attack more kids next year.
It's worth a try.