I agree with you here. With the aforementioned strings attached to the new money, there will be a desire for private schools to maintain some level of control over their admittance practices. At the end of the day, the only mechanism the schools can use that gives them complete autonomy will be the price of tuition. They'll raise their fees above whatever the dollar amount is that the government is giving, thus making it completely unaffordable to those that are not using the government money to send their kids to private schools.

An alternative to this, if there's even a desire to do so, would be to make admittance a blind meritocracy. By this, I mean strip all identifying characteristics from an applicant's profile and have that student perform entrance testing along with essays submitted. Scoring on the testing/essay must be higher than the Schools' current body average to be considered for admittance. Run this process annually to ensure current body also maintains their eligibility. If the student stops performing, it may be time for them to disenroll and be replaced by a more deserving student.

This could provide a clear cut method to qualify/disqualify students, and would motivate staff to maintain or improve quality of education of those within the school already. From there, incentivize the current staff with monetary bonuses for high achievement.

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Posted by Sweep Da Leg

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Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:42 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican

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This is how it will play out: The good private schools wont accept the vouchers because they come with government strings attached. Nothing will change there except maybe tuition increases and more cherry picking of the best students. Struggling private schools will get an influx of students to float the bills, but they wont be the students that will turn the schools around. These schools will continue their downward spiral. Public schools will lose some decent students and funding and will be hit the hardest. The kids ruining the public schools will still be there. Charter schools will pop up around the state. Those in good areas will do ok, those in bad areas will be money-grabs and as bad as the publlic schools within 5-10 years.

Nailed it

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