To use or not use private school vouchers — how two Ohio families made that decision

Ohio’s nearly universal school voucher program has a plethora of supporters and opponents — causing a divide among how families pay for private schools.

The Ohio Capital Journal talked to two parents who send their children to private school — one who uses school vouchers and the other who refuses to use vouchers.

Micah Berman does not use a school choice voucher to send his fifth grade student to the Columbus Jewish Day School in New Albany.

“I think it’s critical for us to have a strong public school system and it certainly seems to me that universal vouchers are undermining that,” he said.

The Berman’s sent their son to kindergarten during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when most schools were doing remote or hybrid learning. But the Columbus Jewish Day School was going back to i