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Aound here private schools run anywhere from $20,000 to $35,000 a
year and the systems that spent the most per pupil spend less than
$7,000. If the taxpayers give coupons for private schools rather
than fund the public schools taxes would have to go up about $20,000
per student. Are you going to vote for that tax increase?

I am not sure that the cost of private schools will remain as high if
all public schools were gradually converted into private schools. We
would also not be paying taxes to support public schools in the new
system. Eventually we would probably end up with the same taxes even
if the average standard of education went up (as we would hope) in the
new system. There would also be more efficiency and less or no money
spent on the beauracracy needed to run public schools. In the end it
may or may not work more reliably than the current system, I just
don't know.

Look at Ohio for a real-world example of where vouchers and
general-poplation private schooling *doesn't*, and is unlikely to work as
you think possible. If you can show one state where general-population
private schools *do* work as you think they might, then there is room for
discussion.

Neil