http://www.eridu.org.uk/blog/2007/08/30/a-voucher-system-for-education/ Liberalism and general burblings Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.eridu.org.uk/blog/2007/08/30/a-voucher-system-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-13228 tinter Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:37:10 +0000 http://www.eridu.org.uk/blog/2007/08/30/a-voucher-system-for-education/#comment-13228 How would a voucher system deal with people living on remote islands, people with extensive special needs and other cases with demonstatbly higher costs? Also, I think the system may allow some poor, capable youngsters with proactive parents to benefit from an improved education. However, in doing this I think it will then substantially hamper any improvment for those who do not fufill those three conditions- the group whos educational experice is at most need of improvement. Also, it is reliant and private charity to even the odds for those who meet those three conditions in you ideal scenario. I would love an example of a nation where this occurs efficently across the board. I do not feel the schemes you suggest would exist on the scale you suggest- indeed, I think amongst some upper class parents they will use their buying power to discourage large implementations of such plans! In that case it becomes a scheme mostly benefiting the upper and middle classes, while leaving the poor in the hole. How would a voucher system deal with people living on remote islands, people with extensive special needs and other cases with demonstatbly higher costs?
Also, I think the system may allow some poor, capable youngsters with proactive parents to benefit from an improved education. However, in doing this I think it will then substantially hamper any improvment for those who do not fufill those three conditions- the group whos educational experice is at most need of improvement.
Also, it is reliant and private charity to even the odds for those who meet those three conditions in you ideal scenario. I would love an example of a nation where this occurs efficently across the board. I do not feel the schemes you suggest would exist on the scale you suggest- indeed, I think amongst some upper class parents they will use their buying power to discourage large implementations of such plans!
In that case it becomes a scheme mostly benefiting the upper and middle classes, while leaving the poor in the hole.

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