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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: fuzzymath who wrote (3365)	10/21/2000 9:32:18 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 10042

I agree you cannot force people to stay in the public schools- but imo public money should not be used to fuel the exodus. I do not want to support private education- I do not approve of it, for all the reasons I've stated. Of course we have a free country and you can DO it, if you can afford it, but I do not believe public policy should be to encourage people to go private. I do not want a government that treats people equally- no government can actually do that. There will always be inequalities- the choice in government is to decide WHO gets shafted with the inequalities. In this case it is my personal policy decision that is is best for the majority if the public schools are saved. It probably isn't best for you- and I know vouchers would have been better for Rambi- but I am looking at the great sea of children, and I think that for the majority of them, and for the good of the fabric of our society, it is better that we do not have a voucher system. The public school system in our district is strained to the limit now- we can't lose a dime. Our teachers cannot afford to buy houses in our area. Our facilities are inadequate. We only have implemented class size reductions up to the 3rd grade- and we would love to reduce class sizes in the other grades but have no money to do it. I could never support anything that would drain away funds from our district when I have been over the budget, again and again, and seen how much we still need. I've got eyestrain from reading the budgets. I kid you not. We are looking at creative pooling of moneys with our city government- and building shared facilities. We are trying to develop partnerships with industry- but still, we don't have enough for all the programs we need.

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