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School Vouchers. ...
School vouchers can be defined as educational funds that are redirected from the school district to the individual family. These funds are the public school taxes that every American family is required to pay to the Federal government. Vouchers provide the parents of school-age children with their tax dollars that would otherwise go to support the local public school. The parents, in turn, can use the money to pay the tuition for their child to attend any private or charter school, which more times than not, offer a better education.
Are vouchers constitutional? Opponents of vouchers argue that those students that would receive vouchers and possibly even be aided academically would be “indoctrinated on controversial subjects such as abortion, creationism, and the role of women in society.” They fear that oblivious parents would send their children to a private school merely for the purpose of receiving a better education and that they would be unaware of the religious views that the children would be taught. In their point of view, the government, by providing vouchers to parents, could be aiding the uninformed parents in this “indoctrination. ... One cannot blame religious-affiliated schools for teaching religious ideas when it was the choice of the parents to send the child to that particular school in the first place. Further, the government would not be “supporting” a religious institution by “paying” for a child to attend a religious school. ... Vouchers are often used to send children to charter schools as well, which have no religious affiliations. ... The last and most convincing reason why the idea that vouchers violate constitutional principles is an ignorant point of view lies simply in the fact that the “principle” of separation of church and state is not even in the Constitution! ...
Now that the reader knows what vouchers are and that they are constitutional, the ultimate question is, how will they help? Proponents of vouchers make several claims concerning this topic.
First, they claim that vouchers will enhance student performance in the classroom and produce heightened levels of academic growth. ...
Another true claim is that vouchers will increase the diversity and choice of schools. ...
Yet another advantage of vouchers is that they will increase parental involvement and accountability in the education of their children.
Approximate Word count = 1799
Approximate Pages = 7.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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