School vouchers are not about education

This text is part of: "Problem of Schooling" by Piotr Wozniak (2017-2025)

School vouchers are not more complex than the concept of money. They still generate debates as hot as the debate on the superiority of socialism over capitalism.

I will help clear up the debate with three simple observations:

• school vouchers are an economic tool. This is not a tool that is supposed to guarantee a recovery of an inefficient educational system. This is just a tool that rationalizes the financing of education. The entire process of recovery is up to the people and will reflect all ills of society. If you have a stratified society, vouchers don't provide a cure. At best, they provide an equal boost to everyone
• educational experts are useless at assessing the value of the voucher system. The core idea of vouchers is to reject universal optimization criteria and empower each student, with their family’s support, to make decisions aligned with their unique goals and standards. If you see reports that use standardized test results to judge the voucher system, you know the authors don't get the purpose of vouchers. The impact of a policy on an ecosystem with countless individual goals and diverse aspirations cannot be accurately measured through a single metric
• nobody has ever implemented school vouchers correctly. There have been 25+ implementations of the voucher system. None of those was the right implementation. When politicians take good tools in their hands, they tweak them without understanding how corrections make the tool impotent. All limits on freedom in the use of the vouchers, on schools, on the learning process, affect the efficiency of vouchers. Most of all, no country in the world dared to pass the entire control of the education system to the best control mechanisms available in the child's brain. We still live the legacy of human "rights" defined at the time of the "Lord of the flies" (i.e. dark ages before the arrival of modern neuroscience). We still hear that the children have the "right to be coerced"(sic!)). Compare: Declaration of Educational Emancipation

On April 15, 2023, an educational conference in Polish parliament organized by Dr Artur Dziambor attempted to make a dent in the wall of ignorance. All prime contributors to Lex Libertas were invited.

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