I wish this were the case. BUt even this is based upon the assumption that any of these children that move to a better school have parents that are involved enough in their lives to make that happen. And unfortunately in some of the neighborhoods where this occurs, there are too many parents who do not do this. We need to keep this in mind and make sure that no matter how much more public or private the education system becomes that there is a need for programs to help children who do not have parents who are capable of helping or simply do not care. That doesn't necessarily mean that the government has to provide this service, but it's needed. There are a few bad parents in this world. So it goes.
Allen Graetz Lowry Hill
Dorothy Titus wrote:
I wonder if the achievement gap and the disproportionate number of
inexperienced teachers has to do with the voucher system. I lived in the
Washington, DC, area for 35 years, and we did not have voucher systems in
DC, VA or MD. A voucher system permits parents to take their children to
schools where they believe they will be better accommodated. This means
that the brightest children move to the highest achieving schools. The
money goes with them, which means that higher achieving schools can afford
to pay their teachers more, so the teachers also go to those schools.
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