Vouchers Would Help A Flawed System
The public school systems in the United States have been abysmally underperforming over the last several decades. This is in spite of record high inflation-adjusted spending in that very same system over virtually the same time period. The funding is available. The problem is with the system and how resources are allocated to maximize the learning capacity and potential of every student.
Public schools, whether on the elementary or secondary level, spend taxpayer dollars in a tremendously inefficient manner. Many dollars that should be distributed to help students succeed are instead tied up in frivolous matters, such as keeping incompetent teachers employed through domineering unions and retaining administrators who are only concerned with lining their own coffers. In short, many of the dollars become tangled within the web of muddled bureaucracy and serve no sensible purpose towards academic attainment. The dollars don’t get filtered to the students because the individuals in charge simply have too much to lose were the system not in disarray. Instead, they can continue to clamor and make disingenuous claims about insufficient resources to secure more sympathy from the public and more taxes from their income. Subsequently, the school system continues to fail, and the cycle repeats itself once again.
The cycle of impassive public school administrators must end. It has been too costly for the public, both financially and in terms of students who are ill-prepared to contribute positively to society as a whole. What the public school system needs is a generous injection of competition from the private sector by allowing local and state governments to issue vouchers to families with school-aged children. School vouchers are essentially scholarships awarded to families, used toward their children’s education. Periodically, families would be granted these funds in order to pay tuition and other relevant educational expenses. Parents can use these resources to send their children to a wide range of capable schools.
Children no longer have to be at the whim of reckless teachers unions and school administrators because of their geographic location. They will no longer be doomed because of where they live, but rather have the option to meet a degree of academic achievement which would be unfeasible in their current situation. A school voucher program also allows families to be in the forefront of their child’s education by making them an active and conscious consumer. Parents can make a much more forceful statement as to where they expect the academic standard to be set if they can choose the scholastic setting. Speaking with the pocketbook is essential in reforming the defective public school system. A child’s education is a once-in-a-lifetime event and should not be subject to inefficient bureaucratic management. The monopolistic approach towards education has failed. Our system needs choice if we expect the next generation to be sufficiently equipped for real world endeavors.
Public schools, whether on the elementary or secondary level, spend taxpayer dollars in a tremendously inefficient manner. Many dollars that should be distributed to help students succeed are instead tied up in frivolous matters, such as keeping incompetent teachers employed through domineering unions and retaining administrators who are only concerned with lining their own coffers. In short, many of the dollars become tangled within the web of muddled bureaucracy and serve no sensible purpose towards academic attainment. The dollars don’t get filtered to the students because the individuals in charge simply have too much to lose were the system not in disarray. Instead, they can continue to clamor and make disingenuous claims about insufficient resources to secure more sympathy from the public and more taxes from their income. Subsequently, the school system continues to fail, and the cycle repeats itself once again.
The cycle of impassive public school administrators must end. It has been too costly for the public, both financially and in terms of students who are ill-prepared to contribute positively to society as a whole. What the public school system needs is a generous injection of competition from the private sector by allowing local and state governments to issue vouchers to families with school-aged children. School vouchers are essentially scholarships awarded to families, used toward their children’s education. Periodically, families would be granted these funds in order to pay tuition and other relevant educational expenses. Parents can use these resources to send their children to a wide range of capable schools.
Children no longer have to be at the whim of reckless teachers unions and school administrators because of their geographic location. They will no longer be doomed because of where they live, but rather have the option to meet a degree of academic achievement which would be unfeasible in their current situation. A school voucher program also allows families to be in the forefront of their child’s education by making them an active and conscious consumer. Parents can make a much more forceful statement as to where they expect the academic standard to be set if they can choose the scholastic setting. Speaking with the pocketbook is essential in reforming the defective public school system. A child’s education is a once-in-a-lifetime event and should not be subject to inefficient bureaucratic management. The monopolistic approach towards education has failed. Our system needs choice if we expect the next generation to be sufficiently equipped for real world endeavors.
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