I would be fine with something like that. I also want mandatory testing of *ALL* homeschooled students to make sure they are actually getting properly educated and learning what they are supposed to know. If you don't pass the tests, you go right back into the regular school system.
Yes, homeschooled must also pass the same test, administered by SAT, ACT, etc. However, failing the test leads to enrollment in a private school, because there will be no more public schools. Public schools fail the constitutional test, whether there's a voucher system in place or not.
I entirely disagree, I think it's very easy to walk that line. You want to apply Christian views, entirely subjective opinions of Christian views I might add, and declare that anything you can arbitrarily decide is religious must mean that the schools are incapable of being untainted by religion. The courts have already decided what is acceptable and what is not, I'll stick with that for the moment.
Either one adheres to the constitution or they don't. There's no such thing as, "we tried to compromise." Yes, we free citizens get to declare almost anything religious. Just as public school has abused us with their global-warming religion in math classes, there is simply no avoiding religion in schools. More importantly, it is our right to demand our children be taught religious viewpoints simultaneously with scientific and other principles. Government's interest is educated children, and as long as kids pass the tests, they are deemed educated. The religious side belongs to the individual and government has no business involving itself.
No, we should care about everyone because in the end, the geniuses are going to wind up taking care of the dummies whether they like it or not. It is much easier to fix the dummies and make them useful than it is to provide them lifetime care because they never got the education when it was available.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil. For too long, liberals have focussed attention and resources on troublemakers. On those that can't or won't learn. Those days are over. Every student gets the same allotment. $12k per student per year of knowledge obtained. Completely equal. Except that under the new ESA-voucher system, schools will have an incentive to graduate students faster. The sooner students learn, the sooner the school gets paid. This will shift the focus to the smarter students. Every student still receives the same total resources, but now we pay attention to the geniuses first. Laggards and dullards still receive their fair share of resources, but we exalt the winners above the losers. As it should be. As it will be.
Or it gives them an incentive to cut costs in the front end and survive solely on the 50% they get up front. This also discourages new schools from getting started because they can't afford to operate on half-a-budget for the majority of the year. What do the teachers do, not eat until they hopefully get their big bonus at the end?
The financial incentive is to graduate students. Invariably, there will be students who can't or won't graduate. As there are today. Instead of pouring in resources to losers (at the expense of winners), we allow the incentives to run their course. Schools will arise that focus on the troublemakers. They will develop new and unique methods of reaching the losers, not out of the goodness of their liberal hearts, but because there is a cash incentive to do so. Let the market fix these kids. Trust the market. Setup the incentives properly and the graduation rate will skyrocket. As will America's world ranking.
I don't want freedom for students. I want results. Students are a product. I want them coming out the other end of the educational factory as educated, productive members of society, capable of caring for themselves and making a financial contribution to the nation. That's what the educational system is supposed to provide. Anything that gets in the way of that is a problem. That doesn't mean that within that context, you can't have choices and options but those are going to be inherently limited to ensure the end goal is met.
Nothing produces better results than the free-market, properly incentivized.
Students themselves have very little freedom. It's parent's freedom that counts first and foremost. Parents freedom flows down to the child. This is one of the biggest problems of why this constitutional issue hasn't been addressed already. Because courts look at children and dismiss them as not having rights. But parents have a religious right to have their children trained as they see fit, within the restriction that the child pass the SAT/ACT test.
If adults were similarly compelled to attend public schools, this constitutional issue would have been addressed and solved decades ago.
