Reply #197: oh my, there is SO much wrong with your post... where to start? [View All]

FIRST; People are giving up on public schools because most public schools dont treat the parent with respect, they are condescending, and view parents as a obstacle to be overcome.

SECOND: Vouchers are a simple way to give the educational establishment a wake up call, to induce a little competition into the mix. To introduce a little accountability into the mix, and to allow poor parents options.

THIRD: They do not compete for students because they have a captive funding source. They get paid wether kids go to the school or parents send them to private schools.

FOURTH: As for your argument regarding tax dollars vs. school quality, there is no correlation. Since 1960 total spending on public schools has TRIPLED IN INFLATION ADJUSTED DOLLARS!!!! Can you honestly say that school quality has increased at all?

FIFTH: do you realize that until this century their was no public schools system as we would recignize it today? And we enjoyed a reasonably well educated populace by the standards of the time.

SIXTH: How can you say that vouchers do not help the poor when the empirical evidence form Milwaukee and Cleveland prove otherwise. Fact, if you are poor, and live in an inner city, vouchers are your only hope to get your child a quality education.

WHY IS THE ISSUE SAVING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WHEN IT SHOULD BE HOW TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN ON A LEVEL THAT THEY CAN COMPETE INTERNATIONALLY?


And as a last argument; How can we as democrats hail ourselves as the champion of the poor and minorities when we consistently vote to lock poor minority children into schools which we know will fail to educate them, thereby locking them out of the American dream, and consigning them to burger flippng for the rest of their lives?

Particularly when we can do SO much better!