[who knows what evil?]

The students themselves and their parents are far more important than what school they go to.

Standing and applauding until my damn hands bleed...

[driftless2]

Like many conservatives, I support good schools and good teachers. But the idea that taking disinterested, often violent students out of bad schools (and there are bad schools) and simply placing them in private schools means many conservatives are as guilty of pie-in-the-sky solutions as liberals.

Liberals are stupid to think white racism holds back black kids. Conservatives are stupid to think low IQ and anti-societal behavior doesn't prevent many kids from learning. Read Robert Weissberg's "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools" to get the lowdown.