These soon become chains. Vouchers expand dependency to self-reliant families now paying for private schooling. Vouchers blindfold the private school admissions office, resulting in increasing the number of troublemakers to unmanageable proportions.
Vouchers prevent cost breakthroughs.
These four factors will change the culture of the private school to be more like today s government school. In other words, when the Choice advocates succeed, they won t enjoy the choice they are left with because the private schools will have become merely government schools run by private operators. As strange as it will sound to advocates of educational vouchers, if the voucher approach to education ever becomes a serious political possibility, it will be as a means of reducing competition in education, not increasing it. In blunt-speak , the Left is going to implement the voucher, not the Right. Lee s insight was confirmed by Marshall Smith, then dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, now Undersecretary of Education.