That is a ridiculously stupid argument. Cars & hard hats you buy when you are 17-18+, i.e an adult. Education starts when you are 3. Are you going to penalize every kid whose parents decided buying a new car was more important than getting the better school? Sure some parents will make rational choices and send them off to great schools, but many will take the cheap route. At least right now the default, free, school is the one that MOST people go to. It is the exception to be paying to go elsewhere. If you find the fastest way to separate the classes in America, this is it. Next thing you will say is "but there will be vouchers it will be all equal", sure except that the bar before was $0 for public education out of my pocket vs 20,000 a year for private. Few would make that leap, except those with piles of money. So now everyone is making the leap, and you know what will be the differentiation? Not money, but skill. It will be competitive. Who will get into the best elementary schools? The kids whose parents push them, because who at that age makes decisions out side of their parents will. And then they will get further ahead than the school with the lower achieving kids, and so it begins. By high school you totally separate curriculum, one that is significantly more advanced than the other, and the kids have totally different chances of getting into college. Decisions at age 10 by their parents suddenly have impacted their life, sounds like a great improvement to me! If you don't think it happens, compare Wilmington Charter to the rest of Delaware, their acceptance rates to colleges, the racial makeup of the school, it is atrocious.