I think a lot of people are missing a point that sduuude mentioned in his post. The “good” schools ALL have significant parent financial support. My son goes to one of the top 10 elementary schools and it IS a great school. But parents are very involved in the school – volunteering a lot of time and making significant donations each year so that the school can have all of the “extras” – like enough teachers to keep the class sizes reasonable.

I don’t see how a voucher system would work. Parents would use vouchers to send their kids to “good” schools, but might be unable (or unwilling) to donate the time and money necessary to make the school “good”. So now all schools sink into mediocrity? I just don’t see how it would work. School districts SHOULD be able to run good schools with tax money, but the truth is that they don’t. The public school system is a ridiculously bloated bureaucracy and it is hard to imagine that changing.