re: Where has the Voucher System been effective exactly?

quote:

---

A bit like saying kids don't benefit from good parenting. Of course kids benefit from an optimal student-school match. Of course they benefit from schools attentive and responsive to their needs. Of course they benefit from systems willing to push them. For example, you can take a kid with a 90 IQ and force feed him into truancy with spoonfuls of our generic public school system, or you can run a targeted vocationally oriented program, teach him how to weld and make nearly six-figures/yr by his 30th B'day. On the flip side you can assess every innercity kid as a "dysfunctional" as CT does. In that instance the occasional student with a 115 IQ gets cast away while teachers are addressing other classroom issues. The general concept is not to turn chickenshit into chickensalad, but rather to understand chickenshit might have a different value. It can make good fertilizer which in turn can help grow a great garden, and gardens produce salad.

---