Private schools can accept the governmentƒ­s money in vouchers, yet they do not have to reform their admittance practices. Organizations that receive funding from the government must then conform to government standards. For example, the Boy Scouts of America did not want a homosexual troop leader. Although they are a private organization, they use the countryƒ

Economically, vouchers are a bad investment. Vouchers lead to a tax increase because tax payers would be supporting two school systems rather than one. The Draper Voucher Initiative in California requires the state to provide $4,000 to approximately 700,000 students currently in public school, should they decide to transfer to a private school. This would cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Poverty-stricken Montanans cannot afford these added taxes. Vouchers take quality education away from all by spending money that could be used in the public school system to reduce class size, and hire and train qualified teachers. Quite simply, vouchers do not improve our neighborhood schools. Many students, even with the aid of vouchers, can still not afford to attend a private or parochial school. As noted previously, farm and ranch children rarely have the necessary transportation to attend private schools. Also, struggling Montanan families cannot afford the leftover tuition costs that vouchers do not cover. This puts them at a serious and double disadvantage; not only can they not afford to go to another school, but we are taking money

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