School

Today's fact: The Bible has about 500 verses on prayer, and almost 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on posessions.

Should we have a school voucher system, allowing parents to decide where to send their kid to school?

The financial drawbacks are obvious. The people sending their kids to private school will want their school taxes to be spent on that school. As a result, the upper class schools will get the best equipment, books, and teachers, while the public schools will get diddly.
Scientists will come from the upper class schools - dishwashers from the public schools.
Or will they?
One of the reasons people are pushing for vouchers is because they don't like what's being taught in public schools. They want their own schools with their own curriculum. That's fine.
So the Wicca will have their own schools, the Scientologists will have their own schools - that's fine, too. Freedom is freedom.
But how do we judge what they've learned? What is the measure of a high school diploma if different things are taught?
What happens when you get five applications for medical school, from five different high schools, and find out they have five very different educations? What happens if some of those educations are a little, well . . .
"Drugs are a hoax. I learned that only meditation can cure the body."
"I can't read this text. It has pictures of undressed people in it, and I was taught never to look at such things."
"Sir, this text implies that blacks are equal to whites. In MY school, we learned . . ."
And so on.
Think it won't happen? Look at the fight over Intelligent Design. Imagine that kind of fight in EVERY subject.
"There is no such thing as insanity. It's the Thetan inside you."
"There are only two classifications of life - humans, and everything else."
"The Earth is only 4000 years old. Fossils are the remains of the great Flood."
"There are no atoms in the Bible."
"We can only know what we are meant to know. If the god has not revealed it to us, then we are not yet ready to learn it. Therefore research is useless."

A voucher system will divide us into a thousand separate societies, each with different beliefs.
Are you ready to live in such a country?