> This tears down the public schools by reducing available funds. What does it do for the private school? It increases their enrollment and provides money to widen the gap between public and private schools. If the process continues, there might someday be no public schools and all of the private schools would have the very same problems that have reduced the effectiveness of public schools.
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> First of all, where I live, huge amounts of school funding are wasted on teachers union crap and other things that don't have anything to do with educated children. Right now, public schools basically have a monopoly on education with government funding. It would be in the best interest for progress in education to give these public schools some competition, so they'll actually have to give children quality education in order to keep students coming to those schools. So, by allowing public schools and private schools to compete, the quality of all education should rise. And isn't that what capitalism is all about?

No, capitalism is about makeing a buck at any cost. Sweat shops are captialism unbound. The Black Market is unfettered Captialism. The idea that a economic theory that, when unregulated, leads to great suffering and abuse can be applyed to education is foolish. Part of capitalism is that each party becomes a preditior, captialism is based on the theory that someone is has to loose. Capitalism in education is a dangerous thing. And Private schools do compeate with Public schools already, if they want more students they can lower tuition. If a school distric has problem with teachers unions that is a whole other issue, stripping the school of funds isn't going to improve it.

Public schools are part of the goverments domain and the goverment has a responsibility to maintain and imrpove them. The school voucher system is just a way to pass the buck and shrink for that responsibility.

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