Why Do We Need School Vouchers?
School Vouchers
Polly Williams was an American counselor and clerical worker from Milwaukee who first proposed her idea of school vouchers to better the education of students there. School vouchers are government funds that can be given to parents and families for their educational preferences and can be used towards private and public schools or for homeschooling. People wonder how much and how far a school voucher should offer individual families and whether or not they should be restricted to certain schools. Part of the controversy surrounding school vouchers includes the use of taxpayers’ money, the educational needs of children, and the terms of the 1st amendment that separate the church and state. Taxpayers are concerned that their money is not going into local schools and that the money they are paying is increasing due to school voucher expenses. Similarly, the public wonders whether or not public or private schools are better for the children of the upcoming generation. The biggest argument against school vouchers is related to religion. Because it is an important topic which draws out emotional opinions, personal feelings can get carried away and can …show more content…
The parents that pay for their kids to attend private school, factually pay not only once, but twice (Messerli). These people are not exempt from taxes. Even if only one child attends a private school, another child in the family may want to attend a public school. These payments do not change, the funds that are already raised are redirected towards private schools and magnet schools in the tri-state area (Messerli). Additionally, a lot of schools that have received adequate funds by parent taxpayers have been poorly managing their money and their responsibility to teach children, being paid simply to babysit. Parents should not have to waste their time and money on schools that do not do their
Polly Williams was an American counselor and clerical worker from Milwaukee who first proposed her idea of school vouchers to better the education of students there. School vouchers are government funds that can be given to parents and families for their educational preferences and can be used towards private and public schools or for homeschooling. People wonder how much and how far a school voucher should offer individual families and whether or not they should be restricted to certain schools. Part of the controversy surrounding school vouchers includes the use of taxpayers’ money, the educational needs of children, and the terms of the 1st amendment that separate the church and state. Taxpayers are concerned that their money is not going into local schools and that the money they are paying is increasing due to school voucher expenses. Similarly, the public wonders whether or not public or private schools are better for the children of the upcoming generation. The biggest argument against school vouchers is related to religion. Because it is an important topic which draws out emotional opinions, personal feelings can get carried away and can …show more content…
The parents that pay for their kids to attend private school, factually pay not only once, but twice (Messerli). These people are not exempt from taxes. Even if only one child attends a private school, another child in the family may want to attend a public school. These payments do not change, the funds that are already raised are redirected towards private schools and magnet schools in the tri-state area (Messerli). Additionally, a lot of schools that have received adequate funds by parent taxpayers have been poorly managing their money and their responsibility to teach children, being paid simply to babysit. Parents should not have to waste their time and money on schools that do not do their