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School Vouchers:

Help or Hindrance
















Andrea Rogers

Axia College of the University of Phoenix






The quality of education in this country has been declining since the early 1970’s. There have been many reasons preferred for the decline. Poor teachers, bad schools, not enough money, the list goes on. Several solutions have been suggested to correct this problem as well. School vouchers are at the top of this list of possible solutions. YourDictionary.com defines a school voucher system as “a document granting a family a certain sum per child, from public education funds, for use as partial tuition to a private or parochial school, thereby making possible enrollment there instead of in the local public school,” (n.d.). While the possibility of choice in schools sounds appealing, the cost of a voucher system could be too high. Many say that such a system will help to improve the quality of education in the United States. Others say that a voucher system will only take money away from the public schools further injuring an already crippled system.
Proponents of the voucher system believe that the use of vouchers will help to improve education. The main reason for the belief is that parents would be able to choose which school that their children would attend. In a true voucher system parents would receive funds to send their child to any school within the district. This choice could be based upon a myriad of reasons including but not limited to differing specializations in fields of study, style of education, security of the school, class sizes, academic or athletic achievement, or culture. Studies have shown that when students and parents are given a choice regarding school, there has been improvement in the overall academic...