In criticizing advocates of publicly-funded vouchers for use in private schools, I may have given the impression that I think additional private school regulations, for the schools that accept those vouchers, are unfair. Not at all.
If you accept public funding, you should expect to be accountable to public authorities. No matter that you started out calling yourself a private school. Fair is fair.
I don’t think schools should accept those vouchers, yet I understand that they will face huge financial incentives to do so, especially early on. They should also realize that when you make a bargain with the “paymaster,” in this case the state, that you should expect to ante up when the bill is called due.
Well, the bill has just been presented in Milwaukee, and participating private schools shouldn’t squawk. Clever them, they realize that if every private school has to meet the same strictures that they now face, they themselves are better off (as Roy argued). It sure will make that bill (or pill) less bitter.
I think the lesson is that if you wanna play in this game, you gotta pay. My most excoriating remarks are directed not at the schools, but at the advocates who disingenuously call this more freedom of choice.
