Very glad to be out of public education today, although my job still depends on working with school districts to serve their most challenging (and expensive) students. We work with kids that typically cost districts $40,000-$60,000 per student per year because of the services the district is legally obligated to provide.
Private schools will not take these kids under any circumstances. The ecosystem works because there are enough kids that require the typical educational structure to offset the costs. Vouchers eventually remove enough of those kids that the system starts to crumble. It won’t be this year or even next, but the long term plan has been set in motion.
Enjoy spending your tax money on schools with no academic accountability ratings, no requirement to provide certified teachers, no requirement to provide special education services, no obligation to accept kids from tough circumstances, and no legal requirement to report staff fired for questionable behavior with students.
I also hope that the residents of the 158 Texas counties that don’t even have a private school enjoy paying for private education for reasonably well off suburbanites who already have access to good public schools.
Everything republicans have ever preached about accountability for public schools is a farce.