Apparently they can cost up to ten thousand dollars <| sep |> I ' m thankful for this awesome match up that will be able to distract me from my vegetarian girlfriends fantastic sober 6 family member Thanksgiving . And that when it ends I ' ll be on my way to my 35 person alcohol driven meat consuming family Thanksgiving . I ' m also Thankful for all of you ! <| sep |> Black shirts matter . <| sep |> Please somehow give me that ability <| sep |> Charter schools are private schools that do not belong to a religious order like Catholic schools . They are essentially nonprofit corporations founded to educate students . As such , they get grants from the government and often do not charge tuition . Vouchers are a form of tax rebate given to people to send their kids to hopefully better private schools , including religious schools . Wealthy conservatives hate that public schools some of which are bad schools are funded through taxes , mostly property and consumption taxes . Since wealthy people own more property , they fund much of the public school system . These same wealthy people often pay lots in tuition to send their children to exclusive private schools . For them , vouchers are a tax refund . Conservatives bill this as a way for poor but motivated families to send smart kids to private schools they could not afford . In reality , parents typically do not do that because tuition is just ONE of the costs associated with private schools , and they worry about their kids fitting in socially with a peer group in a different income bracket . Others argue that if we put the money we would spend on tax rebates for vouchers on the public school system , we could improve them by hiring better teachers and reducing class size . Charter schools can be good if well run or horrible many charter school owners are just in it for government cash grabs and will let the school close after a year or two when they ' ve embezzled all the money . This leaves an entire class of students very much behind their peers in development . True to form , America insists on ignoring what works in other countries like Finland which have topnotch educational systems , and believes if we just let more private institutions without sufficient government oversight take over , things will be better . And they will for a small and exclusive set of people . The rest will make do with substandard crap , thus perpetuating class division in the US .