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Topic: Should a voucher system be used to give parents a choice of schools?

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Opinion #1
Debater: play-doh
School Vouchers Aid the Poor and Underprivileged
The right to choose is one of the most important modern rights to emerge in the United States. This right encompasses an ever-widening spectrum in our culture today, from having the right to choose our leaders in government to the right to choose the fate of our own bodies and what is contained therein. If this right represents politics and abortion, being the foundation of both, then why should this right to choose not extend to the realm of education?

Most parents want the best possible education for their children, however, it is a sad state of affairs when only a privileged minority can gain access to such an educational system. Mired in bureaucratic red tape and regulations the public school system has become a parody of its original intentions. Too many parents are unable to make a choice for a good education for their children, mostly due to economic reasons. Vouchers give them the power to choose, equalizing economic factors in who can access such an education.
Opinion #2
Debater: linc
Vouchers are anti-public education
The only reason private schools are better academically than public schools is that they are exclusive- they have the right to refuse students. If private schools receive tax money, they are de facto public schools; vouchers are only a scheme to circumvent rules on admittance and religious indoctrination.

You don't give anyone more "choices" by paying for them with them tax money, especially when we already have a public education system in place. Republicans want to destroy public schools and replace them with private businesses where customers buy their education, but if they are publicly funded, they must not be partisan or sectarian.

The Religious Right is campaigning for outright religious training at public expense, including Creationism and other bogus ideological agendas. Religion should not be funded by tax money. Fix the public education system instead of draining resources away from it. Right-wingers are waging a war on education; don't be fooled.
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