You are making a lot of different arguments. First off state and federal reimbursements come from taxpayers. So, giving the money back to taxpayers that want to make their own education choices isn't a bad idea. The schools would not need the money because they have less students. Schools in Junction City currently have more money to teach children for 7 hours on 200 days a year than families do to raise children for the entire year. And even with all that money, Junction City schools are rated average by the OEA. The arguments you make are the ones made by lots of people afraid of the change that would come from making schools compete for students. All schools would improve if they had to compete for students. Until the Public Schools don't have a monopoly on the educational dollars, that will not happen.