Comments on: More D.C. Voucher Shenanigans

By: Aaron Byrnes

Aaron Byrnes — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:34:17 +0000

It is time for these voucher parents to have their own version of a Tea Party?

By: therealist

therealist — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:32:40 +0000

The school voucher program study has the potential to “go wide” and change everything – this is hard evidence that children in DC would get a far better education for half as much money. Who doesn’t want a better education for their children. It would even win support of people who already put their kids in private school as it would save them money.

If a conservative revolt does happen (note for Neopolitano: a *political* revolt) I believe it will happen around two issues: school vouchers and illegal immigration. Both are completely indefensible policies that have the most terrible effects on the lowest income Americans (of any race) and help keep them trapped in the most miserable conditions. Illegal immigration is off-topic here, but the argument is simply that it imports crime and poverty that hits the lower income segment the most (as that’s where illegal aliens live and compete for jobs with). In both of these issues lower income individuals are clear voting for their own misery – and they know it.

By: ked5

ked5 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:35:48 +0000

those poor little girls aren’t allowed to play with little girls who go to public school – and heaven forbid they be allowed to play with little girls in a voucher program. Nothing but children of the elites are good enough for them, because that’s who they have for parents.

By: ked5

ked5 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:31:23 +0000

1 Delia

the propagandizing begins in pre-school. There are so many homeschool supplies out there now, the opportunities will fit almost any family’s circumstances.

Many of the arguments the teachers unions and their supporters use against homeschooling is the socilaizaition of children. The homeschoolers I know do so becasue they DON’T want the socialization from the public school system.

By: Delia

Delia — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:17:46 +0000

5. kywrite,

You are so mean. That’s just WRONG. Whoops. I let out a giggle. he-he

By: Rubicon

Rubicon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:18:35 +0000

There is an entrenched bureaucracy within the education establishment. Part of it is the union that has demanded more & more money “for the kids” while they have only made things worse. Grades are down in public schools, kids are dropping out wholesale. Its just a factory system designed to produce community activist types for social change, while they can do not actual work & create anything but havoc.
The system protects itself. Even when a really bad educator is uncovered publicly, they cover for them & arrange for them to be placed elsewhere.
Now, finally, progress is being made exposing the liars for who & what they are. The DOE truly messed up on this one since most already knew vouchers were working in DC where it truly benefits poor kids. But, the union & establishment did not care about that. They want their way, more power over all, and of course, much more money to produce even more failures. Average kids lose out & never get to exploit their potential, while privileged kids w/ contacts get some education. Even that is tainted by the crowd promoting only social change, while doing little for those they say they are helping.
Despite an almost total national media blackout, the word is out that the Education Department fixed the results & hid real results.
Too many now know what they did & too many now know why they did it.
The battle “might” be lost in DC for now…. but the war is on its way to being won as we force educators to return to education or get out of the business for those truly interested in educating our futures.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:58:55 +0000

I certainly hope that vouchers win out in the long run, and I think that they might for the same reasons that this post mentions. It’s too bad, though, that we’re going to have to wait at least 4 years for a president with enough of a spine to stand up to the unions; being young and idealistic, I used to think there might be a sliver of a chance that Obama was genuinely more interested in education reform- “change”- than collecting a decent chunk of change from the unions for Obama 2012. Apparently I was wrong.

By: kywrite

kywrite — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:26:25 +0000

My dream scenario: Barack’s cute little girls come to him, asking why their little friends who depend on the voucher program won’t be able to come back to their school next year.

By: William

William — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:43:12 +0000

Dock teachers pay when they go on strike, the teacher’s unions would collapse.

By: Nosinin

Nosinin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:24:33 +0000

What a surprise, on the air touting one thing while systematically shredding the same thing, along with our constitution.