Implementing school vouchers sends a strong and clear message to our nation: that we as citizens are giving up on public education. These vouchers are irrelevant to

School voucher programs undermine our great American public school system. It does nothing but have parents and community leaders lose faith into what has been believed as an integration of highly qualified teachers and devout students who simply crave knowledge in a world where intelligence has been labeled upon a state’s academic assessment test. If we continue to conceive that vouchers resolve problems in a fallen school district, we are simply blinding ourselves from reality. Our efforts as parents and school advocators should be to resolve the individual dilemmas in the public school, invest our money into those predicaments, and stray away from segregation and religious indoctrination. It is only then, that we as a society have learned to willingly sacrifice for the future generations of schoolchildren and not for self-gratification.

If Florida leaders spent as much time and energy on helping public school students achieve as they spend on developing voucher programs, there may not be such a perceived need for alternatives to the public schools. The focus on vouchers diverts attention from public schools, hurts the morale of teachers and students, and only “creates additional problems” rather than providing solutions. (Mullen 3)

I’ve yet to see any advantage. Charter schools don’t do any better than schools generally, and some have done much worse. While some schools may be successful, the lack of oversight has led in some cases to lax standards and to the hiring of unqualified teachers. Additionally, the rise of charter schools that market themselves to a particular cultural or ethnic group serves to polarize the student population at the very time that desegregation moves are gaining attention. (Patterson 4)

Carrington’s makes a strong point, which is that although we must grapple with a weakened school system, pro-voucher constituents need to dedicate their efforts into shifting them towards the public school and not the latter.

Unfortunately, private schools do not want to be told how to deal with their students. “We don’t want the government telling us how to structure our curriculum or them telling us who are students are, “ said John Holmes, director of government affairs at the Association of Christian Schools Internat

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