Well if you thought that was great . <| sep |> I just use it for stills , do I don ' t know the answers to your questions . Does a good job for my user . <| sep |> This place is a prison gets me every time . <| sep |> Yes , now I see where we are disconnecting . I am saying that vouchers are only used successfully if they incentivize parents who otherwise would not choose to put their kids in private school . So while you ' re right that the vouchers do nothing for public education if they are just giveaways to the wealthy people who would pay for private school not matter what you do get a global benefit if you get new middleincome parents to pay out of pocket to send their kids to private school . From my earlier comment If the cost of educating a student in the public system in 10 kyr , and a voucher for private education is 7 kyr , then the entire education budget saves 3 kyr per student who takes advantage of the voucher system , assuming this child wouldn ' t have otherwise attended a private school . That 3 k of savings can then be reinvested in the public system . Because the public system also has one fewer student to educate , that means the amount of funding per student in public education has increased by 3 k divided by the total public school enrollment . This only makes sense if vouchers are cheaper than the cost of educating a kid in public school , and it only works if that 3 k delta is put back into the public system which is certainly not to be taken for granted . If it seems like my argument for vouchers being a net financial benefit to public school depends on some big IFs , you are right . It would depend on their being priced properly , giving them to the right people and reinvesting the savings back into the public school system . Honestly I don ' t think I ' d trust republican legislatures and schoolboards to do it right .