ARGUMENT AGAINST SCHOOL VOUCHERS

School vouchers are a means for the private school to promote fundamentalist and discriminatory education system. School vouchers have been in practice since the 19th century. But its real life application came about in the rulings of Brown vs. Board of Education when the Supreme Court declared separate but not equal as unconstitutional. The historic decision made school administrators and taxpayers to revise their views of school vouchers. State legislature provides that school vouchers are to support the poor students in private sector schooling. They have the freedom to choose the program that reflects their education future. However, in reality, school vouchers account for sectarian education which dominates private schooling.
Poverty stricken students comprise of only 20 percent of the private schools. After the decision of Brown vs. Board of Education, school vouchers merely became a means for white students to choose a different schooling system for themselves. Henc...