# Explain to me what is wrong with school vouchers as an idea

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-what-is-wrong-with-school-vouchers-as-an-idea/784941>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 21, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-what-is-wrong-with-school-vouchers-as-an-idea/784941 "2017-04-21T19:53:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-what-is-wrong-with-school-vouchers-as-an-idea/784941/341 "2017-05-06T15:28:24Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> You can vote. Bring in a new slate. Or run yourself.

No, I just chose to move my family to a safe district.

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-what-is-wrong-with-school-vouchers-as-an-idea/784941/342 "2017-05-09T14:04:27Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I’m in favor of replacing all the teachers with zoo animals, like zebras and ocelots. Before you say that’s stupid, remember: you gotta try SOMETHING! What are you, afraid of change? A DEFENDER of the STATUS QUO?
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> Too often that’s the sort of thing we hear: because the current setup isn’t resulting in enough kids with enough knowledge, we should accept any harebrained scheme that comes along.
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> There are plenty of schemes that are worse than the current situation. Remember that the current situation is the best we’ve been able to come up with over many decades. Most proposed changes are going to be worse than it. Absolutely we should be looking for ways to make it better, but most important is not to make it worse.

No, your wrong.

KCMO district is TERRIBLE. Yet it is surrounded by districts that do work well. Charter schools at least keep people in the community. Right now anyone living in the KCMO zone with any brains and money basically sends their kids to private schools or they simple move when they have school aged kids.

Now I have heard that some city, I think maybe Boston? I dont know for sure. Years ago had this dump of an inner city school district. What the state did was they dissolved the district and placed the schools under the care of the suburban districts.

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