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In article <1993Jan18.155057.10708@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>I don't see how this is going to work unless your 'voucher' is enough
>to cover the entire cost of the school, which isn't the case with any
>such system I've heard seriously proposed.  There is also still the
>problem of getting those schools to come in and start.

If you wanted to start a 3-classroom (90 students?) school, and had
$2000/student tuition, that's about $180,000 per year.  Tight, but
possible.

>>(Note that when I say private schools, I'm not talking about exclusive
>>prep schools with well-manicured greens, etc...  I'm talking about
>>shoestring operations working out of storefronts, etc.)
>
>Well, THAT sure sounds better than fixing the public schools to me.
>NOT!  Sounds like what you're calling for is just another version of
>separate but unequal, except subsidized to make people feel like they
>have 'a choice'.

Sorry if that's what it sounds like.  I want parents to have the choice
to send their kids to a school where the kids will really learn
something instead of just being warehoused until they turn 18.  I hate
to say it, but I really feel that has become the mission of some schools.
Not in Plano or Richardson, where affluent educated parents are able to
influence the schools in the right direction, but in other places where
the parents don't have that kind of influence.

>>Here's an interesting fact:  In New York City, The cost per student per
>>year of education in the public schools is over $8000.  In the
>>Parochial school system, it is less than $5000.
>
>This isn't particularly unusual.  Costs for parochial schools are
>typically about half of the costs for public (and non-parochial
>private) schools nationwide.

>However, there is that slight problem
>with spending public monies in support of religions (parochial
>schools) and that troublesome Amendment.

You mean the one that starts out "Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
therof"?  The only problem I see with that some legislator may try to
pass a law that differentiates between schools based on the content of
their religion class.
-- 
Mark Harrison, mharriso@dsccc.com