Even though the N.Y. Times is a grossly slanted liberal paper and has staked out an opposing viewpoint regarding vouchers, I have no trouble believing there are snags, such as the one highlighted, in the Florida voucher program.
Your false assumptions seems to be that everything was working fine until vouchers came along, and vouchers have now screwed up a perfectly running system. Far from it flapjack. Another false assumption you seem to living with is that supporters of vouchers believe it's a panacea, where no challenges will exist after implementation. Far from it once again flapjack.
It took quite a long time for the Florida public education system to get this screwed up, and it will no doubt take some time to repair it.
Although the liberal N.Y. Times likes to find challenges such as this and point an accusatory finger saying "see, vouchers are not working", the public education system in Florida will improve over time with vouchers in place. It will especially help the poor and underprivileged more then the wealthy, who always had a *choice* anyway.
I'm sure I could click around the net and find many articles describing the benefits Florida has already seen in public education since vouchers began a short while ago, but really, what's the point? You're too close minded to consider them anyway, and will probably just label them too biased to read.
The unreasonably closed minded view liberals have toward the potential benefits of vouchers disgusts me. It disgusts me because the ones paying for your power hungry union agenda are the ones most in need of a helping hand out of poverty and ignorance. Trapping children and families in cycles of ignorance and despair, by forcing them to attend government inner city schools which fail year after year, is the worst king of selfish crime to me. So, save your petulant N.Y. Times articles, because, I know the N.Y. Times has worked for years against helping those most in need of a decent education in N.Y. City.
While that N.Y Times reporter probably sends his/her children to an exclusive private school in the Hamptons, another inner city N.Y. child goes to school fighting off gangs, drugs, violence, and a lousy learning environment. Another inner city teenager graduates without learning to read his diploma, and another inner city N.Y. teacher quits out of disgust toward a system which is systemically failing another generation of children.
Funny how liberals rarely want to write articles about those problems. No, a child not learning to read after being in a school system for 12 years blocks from your computer, is far less important that a structural challenge facing the voters of Florida regarding how they deal with the expenses of educating a handicapped child.
After all, one problem doesn't threaten the vice-like grip the NEA has over our education system, and one does. |
