School Vouchers 2

These things should be outlawed immediately because they don't do anything to improve public education, and usually serve as nothing more as taxpayer-funded cash giveaways to religious organizations.  The big hoax the supporters of this questionable practice maintain is that taking funding away from the public schools and funneling it to private education promotes competition.  This is utter bullsh*t.  What it does is take resources away from troubled public schools to support, for the most part, their parochial counterparts, giving the private schools an advantage at the taxpayers' expense.  This is also an enfranchisement of religion, which is a violation of the establishment clause.  Most importantly, it's a cowardly running away from the problem in public education, not taking the issue head-on.  If vouchers are the answer, why don't we give them to all the children so they can all go to private school and we can close down the public ones?  How absurd.  This is not a commitment to the dilemma in public education, it's a contributing factor to it.