Does this REALLY surprise anyone ? <| sep |> If people with shitty school systems want to adopt a voucher system that ' s fine by me . They can do whatever they want . The reason they have shitty schools is probably because they have communities with deeply entrenched poverty and other problems that charter schools won ' t fix . I take offense at someone telling me that my public schools are failing and then offering me a solution to a problem that doesn ' t exist . You keep assuming that we would want to send our kids to a private school . We don ' t and the vast majority of people in my town don ' t either . Our schools don ' t suck because we invest time and money in them and our kids . It pisses me off because people are offering to fix something and act like it is in the best interest of education . Not saying this is you , but most people who look to privatize schools are really interested in union busting and getting their hands on what they see as a lucrative untapped market . If anybody is going to make money off my kids ' education I want it to be the teacher and principal they see every day , not some connected corporation that got awarded a charter by some crooked politician . What skin do you have in this game anyway ?