Where have vouchers proven effective? If anything, we need to follow Finland's lead and ban paying for school. Segregating students by economic class has not improved education in the United States, about the only effects are 30+% unvaccinated rates in private (mainly Catholic) schools, and strong clique effects that allow so so students from said schools to do notably better than those from nearby public schools.
Also, the local Archdiocese across the US need to get their shit together, its fucking disgusting that they are the leading cause of whooping cough, mumps and so on coming back in force and killing people.
> Also, the local Archdiocese across the US need to get their shit together,
Local dioceses, which include but are not limited to archdiocese; metropolitan archbishops have extremely limited authority over the diocese of suffragan bishops within their province, so archdioceses have no real special status here other than that they also happen to be dioceses.
> its fucking disgusting that they are the leading cause of whooping cough, mumps and so on coming back in force and killing people.
They aren't, anti-vaxxers are. There's some cases where the vaccination policy of the a particular diocese is less strict than those of public schools in the same area, and cases where the reverse is true [0]; and Catholic schools are the most common private schools in the country. So, where they have more lenient vaccination policies than public schools, they are where anti-vaxxers tend to end up, but they aren't the cause.
Finland does not have compulsory union membership for teachers, they just happen to have a large and fairly reasonable teacher's union which serves most teachers well under threat of competition.
In the U.S. and here in Canada, you are (in most places) under compulsion to pay and participate in a specific union.
Also, the local Archdiocese across the US need to get their shit together, its fucking disgusting that they are the leading cause of whooping cough, mumps and so on coming back in force and killing people.