[RockinRight]

Not one of Bush's better moments, this plan. My girlfriend and I agree on this, but not much else. She's an avid liberal, and basically agrees with your statement that you can't force kids of different types (unable to learn vs. unwilling) into the same standards.

Where we disagree is how far to take it. She says the federal gov't should stay out of the schools, but when I say "So, you think we should eliminate the Department of Education," she disagrees, but can't come up with a real reason why.

[Old Professer]

I deliberately used the provocative term, defective, to illustrate the hypocrisy of public policy that allows the elimination of perspective members waiting to join the class of the living for purposes of perfecting society while denying that those already here who are unable to contribute are used as pawns in some evil chess game to sanction state power while also refusing to admit the truth that confronts them daily.

Far better would be a society that recognized the limits of the defective as demonstrated and either made accomodations for their assisted welfare or ignored them to their eventual demise.