Sadly I think that died many decades ago and now we're just an economic zone
I know there's an ideal of what America should be, but don't muddle the reality. America was built on whiteness (whose definition shifted over time) and class identity.
A professor once taught me that the law is not meant to represent the people, but to frame the ideal we want to be.
To me, it seems more like a failure of voucher design than anything. The solution is probably to make the voucher worth up to 80 or 90% of what it costs to teach the kid in the public system (because if it doesn't cost less why are we doing it?) and force any school receiving a voucher to not charge more than a small amount more than the voucher, make the same restrictions on religion present in public enforced in private, etc.
Declining public enrollment is a problem for crappy teachers and their union more than anything, it's not something to be concerned about. Fire the unneeded teachers and administrators to save costs and it should sort itself out medium term.
People who objected had no right to express their displeasure.
And the United States was a twinkle in the eye of men who wouldn't be born for like 70 years. In other words, non-existent.
Nowadays, we have the right to ask for something back if we give universities money man.
What are you a communist? /s
Jokes aside, with the recent election, the country has been sold to capitalists and oligarchs.
I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the school system in some states is fed to vultures to suck money from.
You may think it is impossible in America but remember anything has been possible in America, including enslavement and redlining. Selling schools to vultures is not at all outside the realm of possibilities here.
My question is how long will it take for it to be reversed.
I have a deep respect for the ideals upon which the US was founded, but it's getting increasingly hard to respect the ground truth of what the country has become.