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>By your logic, if it is alright for government to give vouchers to buy
>one commodity it should be alright to give vouchers to buy any
>commodity. Where’s my Sharper Image shopping voucher? Why aren’t
>you agitating for that?
I agree. But since we have institutionalized a system where Govt usurps citizens
funds to pay for so called public education... a voucher system is an improvement
over the failed system now in place.
>Cost per pupil should not even be considered. Education is a right.
Education is not a "right." Every parent has a duty to educate his/her
offspring. Govt should not steal people's money to force
them to pay for other's parental responsibilities.
>You obviously have no understanding of poverty, probably because
>you’ve never been poor or spent very much time around poor people
How the hell would you have any idea about my background.
Making such an assumption proves you are a shallow thinker.
>Selfishness is a social disease. Its carriers should be quarantined.
More ignorance. Selfeshness is a human survival trait that has evolved
over millions of years of evolution. It can be a positive or negative trait
based on the circumstances. It is no more a "disease" then anger, lust,
hunger or sadness.
>And what do you mean “supporters”? it seems to me that if anybody is
>going to wind up supporting vouchers it’s we taxpayers. That means that
>some of my money will effectively be taken from my by threat of force
>and given to religious schools. This in intolerable.
Now you are starting to "get it." I agree that is is "intolerable" to "take"
your money "by threat of force" whether it is given to religious schools
or Govt Schools.
>Generations of kids from the Inner Cities, and from rural America, have
>been destroyed by poverty. Blaming it on the schools is a distraction
>from the real source of the problem.
Poverty is much less a problem then "infantilization" and "victimization"
Being poor does not mean one has a license to be a dysfunctional, irresponsible
parent or person. It is gross elitism to equate low income with dysfunctionality.
>Are you even aware that you are contradicting yourself when you blame
>what’s wrong with education on the “Corporate State” and then propose
>that we turn to corporate schools to fix it
I never suggested we turn to "corporate schools" to fix anything. Where any parent
wants to send his/her kid to school is their business. Anyone who does not
realize that our current Govt School System is a creature of the Corporate State
is either naive, ignorant or deluded.
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