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'''Education vouchers''', as used in Cleveland and other U.S. cities, permit parents of [[public school]] children to choose any public or private school for their children they wish. The presumption is that they will make a wiser choice about which school will help their children learn, than local or state bureaucrats would.  

'''Education vouchers''', as used in Cleveland and other U.S. cities, permit parents of [[public school]] children to choose any public or private school for their children they wish. The presumption is that they will make a wiser choice about which school will help their children learn, than local or state bureaucrats would.  

School voucher programs are most popular among inner-city blacks, and opposed most by the [[Democrats]] and [[teachers' unions]]. The main secular argument against vouchers (and other such programs, like [[charter school]]s) is that they take money away from a given school, which makes it more difficult for the teachers to provide quality education for the remaining students.  While the result of a voucher program is good for the students who are able to take advantage of it, it severely disadvantages the remaining students, staff, and faculty.

School voucher programs are most popular among inner-city blacks, and opposed most by the [[Democrats]] and [[teachers' unions]].

 

The main secular argument against vouchers (and other such programs, like [[charter school]]s) is that they take money away from a given school, which makes it more difficult for the teachers to provide quality education for the remaining students.  While the result of a voucher program is good for the students who are able to take advantage of it, it severely disadvantages the remaining students, staff, and faculty.

 

Another argument against school vouchers is the concern that private schools (which have the legal right to decide their own curriculum and who they will and will not accept as students) will use the vouchers to accept only high-achieving students of outstanding character (and, in the case of Christian schools, only those who are Christians and hold to the school's specific doctrinal position), leaving non-Christian students, students with learning disabilities and students who would pose "disciplinary risks" to the public schools.

School vouchers are also generally opposed among [[fundamentalist]] Christian groups, on the belief that once a school begins taking government money, it allows the government a potential legal right to dictate to the school (and possibly, where applicable, the school's sponsoring church) what it can and cannot teach (and preach) on certain issues, especially on hot-button topics such as [[abortion]] and [[homosexuality]].

School vouchers are also generally opposed among [[fundamentalist]] Christian groups, on the belief that once a school begins taking government money, it allows the government a potential legal right to dictate to the school (and possibly, where applicable, the school's sponsoring church) what it can and cannot teach (and preach) on certain issues, especially on hot-button topics such as [[abortion]] and [[homosexuality]].