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The Republican circus continues with Betsy DeVos showing how little she knows about Education

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01-21-2017, 04:14 PM

Quote:What's all this talk about vouchers?


Here every public school is free to go to, although they ask you to pay a "voluntary" donation of around 50 euro if you can. Then they will help pay for books and uniform if you are stuck.


Then the private schools are anywhere from 5'000 per year up to 35,000 or so depending on how exclusive they are.
 

The idea of vouchers is that the money goes to the parents of each student, who can then choose any school. This puts pressure on the schools to perform. Competition breeds improvement.


 

In your case (and in the usual case in the US) the money goes to a school board or other elite bureaucracy, who then decides the education of each student. Each student is then stuck with what they are assigned, no matter how bad.


 

TED is concerned that parents will be taken advantage of by scam artists. This is certainly a concern. What he misses is that government doesn't hold public schools accountable either. Try to fire a bad teacher. You can fire a young teacher, or one who commits a crime or breaks a rule. But you can't fire a tenured teacher for poor performance.


 




                                                                          

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