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Yes, definitely 100% agree. Get those kids vouchers of their own, and allow private schools to take in those whose parents care about their children's education. Provided that the private schools adhere to the same standards that the public schools adhere to (which are hopefully high, depending on the state).

When you give the students a choice of schools, those that have parents that care and/or are involved (and thus students that try at life) will naturally separate from those that do not care, usually because their parents think of school as babysitting for 6.5 hours while they work.

EDIT: Let's have competition between schools not between students. That is how we get smarter citizens.
Magnet and Charter schools are government run but your idea with vouchers works well also. Though it does create issues with religion because the majority of private schools are religious. This sin't necessarily an issue because catholic high schools especially are pretty well respected for education but could create some issues if vouchers alone were used.