From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 10 14:58:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17937 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17931; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00788; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:53:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Yes, the voucher idea is gaining popularity around here, too. In > addition to helping separate & religious schools, it also has the > benefit of inducing some amount of competition in public schools. > > I tend to be slightly liberal, though, and I think that the voucher > discourages the development of a quality public system. The But it may improve the public schools. They'd have to compete for students. Are enough parents smart enough and concerned enough to pick a "good" school? (I think so.) Would the public schools be left with the difficult children--handicapped, disruptive, whatever? I sort of doubt it; but maybe the state then says: here's a difficult kid, this is a $3000 kid instead of a $1500 kid. > monetary value of the voucher will slowly be eroded, and the rich > will be unaffected, but those with less money will not have the > ability to suplement the voucher. It doesn't have to erode; it can be set by formula, related to how much the state budget per child is, or something like that. Of course, what you get from the legislature isn't always what you ask for. Annelise