Vouching for Vouchers

In the ongoing debate over school vouchers, one reason for having vouchers goes unsaid: They can provide parents leverage in dealings with school districts. A top-heavy district bureaucracy and go-along school board might react differently to angry parents holding petitions with hundreds of signatures threatening student departure. The threat of loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars--if not millions--might cause districts to pay heed to parents’ voices.

Actually using a voucher to remove a child from a district would be a secondary effect. Given this, why not vote to have a voucher?

Chuck Wagner

Culver City