Taxpayer vouchers allowing students to attend private schools is a bad idea, despite the growing hype for it, for a number of reasons:
1. Mixing public funds in private institutions is never a good idea. A great deal of the mischief done is by private groups financed by the government. Government and private business should be kept as separate as government and church.
2. Private schools that accept public-financed vouchers soon will find themselves controlled by Government. The long-term result will be that private schools will become as bad as government schools.
3. Bad students turn a school into a bad school whether it's private or public. In fact, the virtue of private schools is that they can reject the bad students. Once they start down the road of accepting public funds, however, this option will be closed to them by the government.
4. Another reason to oppose vouchers is that it will end up being a subsidy for the well-off.
5. Another false premise used to sell the idea of vouchers is the assertion that government schools will be forced to become competitive. Government schools cannot compete in any sense of that word. They are government schools, creatures of the law and politics. Faculty, its pay, and the curricula are determined not by the schools but by politicians, bureaucrats and, in some cases, judges.
Full article: https://mises.org/library/voucher-dangers
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