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I have a single mom friend with a 4 year old daughter who is already researching the school systems around where she lives. She grew up in the area and knows the quality of the schools and she will move to get her daughter in the best possible school. She thinks public schools are failing our kids and wants better for her child. When I mentioned she might look at the school voucher program, she had not heard of it. It would be a big help to her as she is certainly nor “Rich”! And it you want to look at data, how many of those private school kids are being paid for by grandparents, or other family members like I’m doing for great grandchildren in SanDiego?

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The shakiest part of Horne's math is the most obvious question asked by any parent looking for a private school. "Where, precisely, are the 43,000 empty private school desks.to be found?"

There are only 68,000 private school students enrolled this year. It is preposterous to believe private schools could add more than 60% capacity over the summer.

Aside from finding 50% more teachers, at a minimum, good luck finding 1,000,000 square.feet of dormant campus capacity.

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