How are you going to do that when the best performing students leave Oklahoma and take their lifetime tax revenue with them to raise their kids elsewhere. Over four generations or so, you have a downward spiral.I don’t disagree, but that’s why you need to break the cycle. Allowing every parent of a terribly behaved child to send that kid to a privatized school(via vouchers) just degrades the quality of the private schools and it does it with a middleman profiting from the children. It would be better to focus on improving the socioeconomic status of the poorly performing schools so the kids act better as their parents are able to provide better home-lives.
I’m all for magnate schools for and vouchers for kids who are academically outstanding, but not simply because you don’t like the quality of schools in your area. I would focus on improving the public schools rather than just giving up on them.
People ask me all the time why Oklahoma schools are so poor. I say most arent. But they are mostly located in the North Dallas suburbs and outside Houston and Kansas City.