$7,200 for Every Student: Arizona’s Ultimate Experiment in School Choice

It sounds great in principle. What will happen is that there will be schools that only fairly well off people can go afford. The poor will be stuck with schools that cost exactly what the voucher is worth and will be bare bones. The public schools will be left with those who, for a variety of reasons, can’t get to a voucher school and those who are too unruly or otherwise “defective”. This will have bad long term consequences.

&gt; many students in the program were already in private schools or home schools.<p>So the private schools raise tuition by $7,200 and everybody wins, right?

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Heck yeah, directly giving people money has always fixed all the underlying problems in our systems.

I wonder about this in terms of capitalism.<p>Doesn&#x27;t capitalism work?<p>Everywhere I&#x27;ve worked, the company cafeteria doesn&#x27;t have to compete and usually sucks. If it was on level footing with restaurants that are open to the public, it would have to do more and do better.<p>Some companies slightly understand this and have an internal subway or starbucks and although they are franchises, they are generally well regarded and do well.

Public funding of religious indoctrination is bothersome.

Didn’t Sweden try this with bad results?