The issue of school vouchers is complex, and raises emotional responses from both sides. The future structure of an already embattled American education system is at stake. In states where the voucher system has been implemented, parents are given the option of removing their children from public school and placing them in private schools with funds given to the parent roughly equal to the amount the state spends per student in the public schools.
Vouchers take funds away from an already impoverished public school system.
This money should be spent to improve public education. Many private schools are religious schools, and it would be unconstitutional for public money to be spent to support these institutions. Many parents would still not be able to afford to send their students to private schools. These students would in effect be left behind. Public education is a failure.