[Stand Watch Listen]

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[kassie]

It makes me sick to think I fund these public waste institutes with my tax money.

[chachacha]

ALL THE MORE REASON TO HAVE PRIVATE VOUCHER SCHOOLS

[Movemout]

"(1) that school choice, and vouchers in particular, lead to "segregation" of schools; (2) that self-interested parties will run fly-by-night "voucher schools" that don't educate children; and (3) that school choice programs are not accountable to taxpayers. "

(1)Segregation exists in the Government run schools already. Segregation by voucher is likely to be related to performance of the school and cost of the school.

(2)Customer oriented schools will provide whatever the customer is willing to pay for. We have innumerable uneducated graduates of governemnt run schools. In the end, graduates have to produce at the job. Those that can produce will go on to successful careers. Those that can't will end up on the public dole or jail.

(3)The government is accountable to the taxpayer? What a laugh. When was the last time you told a government toad that you disagreed with his approach on some issue and received a response much less a change in direction? Customer based schools will need to be responsive to parents to survive. Period!

[tcostell]

"Voucher programs could end up resembling the ethnic cleansing occurring in Kosovo."

This man calls himself an educator. He should be ashamed of himself.

[E Rocc]

NAACP president Kweisi Mfume warns that vouchers could "allow our nation's schools to be divided once again by skin color."

Da Wabbit thinks only white kids will get the vouchers?

He needs to come to Cleveland, where ultra-lib black councilwoman Fanny Lewis (who herself is about as much above race-baiting as Bill Clinton is above twisting facts) is a vociferous supporter of the voucher program.

-Eric

[Tacis]

Vouchers are not the answer to anything other than public funding for religious education. Vouchers would mean that the taxpayers would have to pay for duplicate school systems. The schmucks in the public school will be delighted because vouchers would enable them to claim that they can't be competitive when some/much/most of the tax revenue goes to the private schools.

No, vouchers will not improve general education but only the education of those who attend specific private schools many of which will provide religious indocrination, rather than education.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Want to have a real hoot? Go to your local public school and ask how many assistant principals they have. I guarantee your jaw will drop when you find out.

If you're really daring (and have a strong stomach) ask how much those assistant principals make a year. And yet teachers are still paid a teeny, tiny pittance and forced to waste years of their life getting a (worthless) degree in "education".

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Spiff]

Be careful what you wish for. Vouchers will quickly lead to federal or state standards, curriculum, testing, etc. for any school that accepts the vouchers. It is the method with which government will intrude into schools that are currently free from such intrusion. The answer is the complete separation of school and state.

[First_Salute]

The N.A.A.C.P. is a private organization unfortunately under the direction of enough racial extremists allied to establish black segregation and supremacy while presenting to the public a "persona" of a "united front" against everything for which the organization actually stands.

To be fair, I should note that I have seen more racism from the Orient and from the middle-East and from south-central Asia.

While for the most part it has been white people championing and living up to their dream of our not pre-judging somebody because of the color of their skin.

"Hats off" to many American Indians for not being racial extremists while at the same time having the courage to maintain some segregation for the preservation of their culture.