Diverting public funds into private hands will stretch taxpayer dollars further. By not allowing public funds to go to sectarian schools, the government is impinging on the freedom of parents to express their religious views, in violation of the First Amendment. Any change in public education is good change since it challenges the status quo and creates innovation. Public education is too protected by its own inertia and bureaucracies, notably teachers' unions and school boards. Vouchers will upset that inertia and create positive change.
Many public schools are unsafe.
All children deserve to learn in the safe, drug-free, disciplined environments that private schools offer. Competition in and between schools means cutting costs to produce cheaper, easier products. Vouchers will transfer too much power into the hands of consumers, whose decision to exploit the vouchers will undermine public school teachers and administrators by significantly decreasing their funding. Diverting much-needed funds from already strapped public schools will only damage public education. Public schools need more support from our treasuries, not less.