Vouchers, while a dirty word in politics, it’s exactly what Romney wants to do.  If it looks like a voucher and smells like a voucher, it’s a voucher, just like Chief Justice Roberts said the HealthCare Mandate is a tax.  Anyway, what is it exactly that Romney wants to do?  He wants to bring a more business-like model into education, giving parents to ability to “choose with their feet” where their child goes to school.  Honestly that doesn’t seem horrible, I have been in Bulgaria for the last two years, and parents have that right here, and it works.  Schools compete for the students, and want to hire the best teachers and have the best afterschool programs, at least in the area I worked in.  Are their problems with this model in America, yes, big ones.  In Bulgaria there are specialized schools, not all schools are ment for the same kind of student.  I could see problems with overcrowding, wich would lead to lower educational quality, and the fact is that this idea isn’t tested.  How do we know this would make education better?  Should we always blame the teacher?  Where is the student’s responsibility?  Let me know what you think.

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