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Opinion #1
Debater: linc
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Vouchers are anti-public education
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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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Opinion #2
Debater: play-doh
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Vouchers are pro-education
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The fact that some private schools are exclusionary does not make them better academically. To make that claim is to claim that a child's educational ability is determined outside of school, which would lead to the inevitable conclusion that no school system, whether private or public, has any influence on their education.
Private schools are, typically, better educational institutions because the money paid in, by private interests, allows higher pay for teachers, attracting higher quality teachers, and, also, allows for more diversity in the education given and extracurricular activities, whether athletic or academic.
Most private schools are not religious institutions, and to say that they are wanting to teach such concepts as creationism, at the expense of science, is also to make the claim that universities will change their admittance policies. Good private schools provide a good education, which includes rates of admittance to universities, otherwise, it is bad business.
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