re: Where has the Voucher System been effective exactly?

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Schools are effective or ineffective based upon the students they get. Changing the administration doesn't do anything more to change the cognitive capacity or incentive of the student body than more pay for teachers, air conditioning, new books, new curriculum, etc.


Such a sad POV.

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If you had a skill such as plumbing that you wanted to teach me but I came to your class and basically didn't cause much trouble but didn't really pay attention. You called my parents and they basically said they'd see what they could do at home (which was their way of saying we won't do much if anything).

No matter what you try my plumbing scores will be low because neither my parents nor myself really cared about this. So how will your awesome teaching abilities really matter? Remember, I am in a class of 30 or so other kids. Are you going to drop everything for me? What if you have a class with 19 other students in my same situation?

If you had a class of students whose parents were motivated and the student was motivated to get an education then that awesome teacher can really help boost the ability of the kids. A poor teacher can not. No matter the awesomeness of the teacher in the plumbing example, the non-motivated family/kids won't do well because they just don't care or possibly have the mental brainpower.