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ers are a positive step in the direction of reforming the educational system. There are also those who argue that voucher financing is merely a way of shoring up a failing school system, which needs to be abolished in toto and replaced with a flexible system of educational alternatives. Others oppose vouchers because they do not do the whole job of redefining and reallocating educational resources. Such positions are not merely the manifestation of a “‘revolutionary” as opposed to an “evolutionary” approach to social change. Individual analysis of the empirical issues in the context of a theory of social change may lead to different positions by thoughtful men as well as by self-interested groups. Deciding “whose side are you on’’ is not so easy as it looks.