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To: silmaril
Want to alleviate overcrowding? Vouchers, anyone?

What makes you think that private schools are empty? And, Gov. Bush does have two voucher programs in place, with a 3rd on the way. And, FYI, not every private school in this state WANTS to accept voucher students.

Gov. Bush is on the right track -- there needs to be more and better planning up front.
4 posted on 01/03/2002 6:51:29 AM PST by summer
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To: summer
What makes you think that private schools are empty?

I don't think they are. I also think that, as private institutions, private schools will respond to demand as any business would. It's simply a question of allowing the consumers the freedom to participate in the market.

Gov. Bush is on the right track -- there needs to be more and better planning up front.

Government "planning" is a one-way track to disaster. It always has been, and it always will be. I went to high school in Pinellas County, and you could always tell which of the dozen-or-so municipalities in the county had interventionist governments -- they were run-down and shabby. It was the unincorporated or newly-incorporated areas that had vibrant growth and rapid development.

Bottom line: citizens and the markets shouldn't conform to government priorities. That's backwards. If government can't handle growth, then government needs to get its act together. To do otherwise implies that our communities exist by the leave of the state government. That's abhorrent and wrong.

8 posted on 01/03/2002 7:07:31 AM PST by silmaril
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