Hello Everyone, Sorry for such a long hiatus after trying to do this but I was interested in doing this since I saw a lot of my Objectivist peers go at it on the subject of whether Betsy DeVos' ideas of promoting school vouchers is a good one. I won't be going into her Christian Values campaign as that is but an effect of the cause of her main goal with implementing this idea in the hopes of getting to privatize the school system. However, after going over this, I have changed my opinion on the issue of school vouchers and am now against them.
I had originally thought that the School voucher program would instill some good effort into the public education system but one of the biggest problems is mainly that School Vouchers don't get rid of the Public Educations system since they are just continuing what Normal Taxation has done. In order for us to realize why this is so, let's define exactly what school vouchers are. School vouchers are government subsidies for children to attend what schools their parents wish. Even private schools get vouchers too under the system. However, because of this private schools will have to go under the standards of the governments education plan if they made one because of accepting the government subsidy. And the way people pay into the system is just the same. People are still being taxed to pay for schools but they just get what is consider the illusion of choice.
And as I said earlier with the issue that private schools go into the public sector, The Private School System will now have to listen to the standards of public education. Now the private sector must do this in order to appease the school choice philosophy with the unintended consequences of stamping property rights and free market interference. This is especially noted in Craig Biddle's article "Louisiana Demonstrates Problem With School Vouchers" in The Objective Standard, A magazine I recommend all Capitalists, Republicans, Libertarians, Philosophers, Free-Thinkers, and even my own Family and Friends read as a main source of information in news in contrast to the yellow journalism of today's media. (I'll leave the link at the end of this article.) This will no doubt hurt the private sector when they lose the choice of how to run their curriculum in response to government propositions.
Lastly, and most importantly, The School Voucher Program doesn't solve the main problems with privatizing the education system. But how exactly is this so? It has to do with the philosophy of education. Two educators helped changed the education system with their work, Maria Montessori and John Dewey. Montessori focused on an individual based curriculum in teaching students all a manner of subjects the individual child is interested in. However, John Dewey believed Schooling was a social experiment where society shapes an individual rather than what Montessori teached with her individualist approach. I had talked to Ms. DeVos about this issue but sadly I was left with nothing and no real answers to what she cares about.
Folks, what we're left with and what we should take from all of this is one simple fact. Government needs to get out of education and only we individuals can make that happen. It's obvious that Ms. DeVos has absolutely no idea about how her ideas actually hinder the free market and make our students even worse of than currently and we had to suffer the effects of both No Child Left Behind and Common Core. Let's not make things come into threes and tell her this is not a good idea and start finding better and more free market solutions to our education mess.
https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2016/01/louisiana-demonstrates-problem-with-school-vouchers/
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