Hiku said:
| I want to repeat one last time: Charter schools are FREE. |
While that may have been the case for your family, vouchers usually don't cover the whole cost for private schools. What more commonly ends up happening is that they act as additional support for families who could already afford to pay for private school.
In a country where you don't even have tuition free college, you can't seriously expect that all kids will have access to fully funded private schooling.
And for those who can't, they'll be stuck in a defunded, worse, public school. That's not fair.
I mostly grew up in Sweden, and we do have tuition free college. I could pick any school I wanted, anywhere in the country. That's equally fair for every student. Not the system Mrs DeVos has devoted herself to.
On top of that, there's the religious element to this that is very debatable, and the separation of churche and state.
But more importantly is how ridiculously unqualified Mrs DeVos is for the position. If this was someone with a background that had prepared them for this position then the debate would have a very different tone.
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No offense, but you just destroyed any and all credibility you have with this statement. You just responded to my comment about charter schools being free with vouchers for private schools, and therefore prove you DO NOT know what a charter school is and should drop this conversation immediately.
C H A R T E R S C H O O L S != P R I V A T E S C H O O L S
Please research the topic before trying to rile other people up.
