{"id":38085,"date":"2019-04-13T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38085"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:32:35","slug":"qotd-school-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/13\/qotd-school-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: School vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am still a supporter of school vouchers. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve lived up to the hopes that I (and a bunch of other folks) had for them. But that said, the best opponents can say is that they don&#8217;t do all that much better than the public schools on academic measures. Parents like them, kids like them, and they cost less. I just don&#8217;t see a good argument against them.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s telling that of the folks I know who oppose vouchers, not one of them has voluntarily kept their kids in a failing urban school. When they move, they choose a house in a good school district. I don&#8217;t see how you can morally do that and then tell some other, poorer parent that they need to lean into the strike zone and take one for the team.<\/p>\n<p>That said, maybe there&#8217;s an argument for restricting them to kids in failing schools, or below a certain income. I don&#8217;t see any need for the government to subsidize Exeter. But for the kids who are trapped, I think they should get the same chance middle class kids do, even if it&#8217;s not the panacea we once hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/64k9kh\/im_megan_mcardle_a_columnist_for_bloomberg_view\/dg2vqgv\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221;, <em>Reddit<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still a supporter of school vouchers. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve lived up to the hopes that I (and a bunch of other folks) had for them. But that said, the best opponents can say is that they don&#8217;t do all that much better than the public schools on academic measures. Parents like them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,79,84,41,13],"tags":[374,660,91],"class_list":["post-38085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-education","category-government","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-children","tag-deregulation","tag-poverty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38086,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38085\/revisions\/38086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}