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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (133412)3/25/2001 5:02:39 PM
From: Little Joe  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Nadine:

"How do you answer the charge that all the best students would be removed from the public schools, leaving them to deal with students that the private schools did not want?"

This argument is one that I hear all the time. I have a few responses to it.

1. There are proven examples of public schools that are getting the job done. Why not try to emulate them? Because the the school system is broke and there is little incentive to improve it. Vouchers could be a way to create that incentive.

2. Assuming you are correct, You have just made the greatest argument for a voucher system I have ever heard. If the reason public schools are failing is because they must educate handicapped students, which I don't believe, then the only chance the rest of the kids have is to go to a school that can cherry pick, so they can get an education. The problem is that argument proves to much. You say we can't give kids a good education because we have to deal with handicapped children.

If I am a parent I want my kids to get a good education. I have empathy for the handicapped, but, if the rest of the kids are being cheated of their education and we are not doing a good job of educating the handicapped kids, what is the purpose of the public school system. Your argument proves it can't work. I don't believe this but that is where this argument which I hear over and over takes you.

I don't know if a voucher system will work, but after watching our schools deteriorate year after year, (despite the fact that our country spends more per capita on education than any other) I am prepared to try it. Hell it can't be worse.

Little joe
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