If the school receives Federal money, I firmly think we should be teaching ALL subjects in English. Absolutely, KLP. This failed experiment with our youth needs to cease. What surprises me is the idiot who thunk up that there ebonics wasn't able to get it qualified as a language. Did you know that given the choice, one out of two congressmen enrolls his children in PRIVATE schools. I like what this person Paul Jacobs says. He even slams Clinton:
"Do as I say, not as I do." As parents we try to avoid saying this to our kids. And, as parents with school age children, many of us would like Congress to stop saying the same thing to us.
I'm referring to the fact that Congress has been less than enthusiastically supportive of school choice: the ability of parents to send their kids to private or parochial schools, if the public schools in their area aren't functioning properly.
While Congress opposes school choice, the facts speak for themselves: nearly half of congressmen send their children to private schools, not the public schools. Compare that to only 10 percent of Americans who are able to send a child to a private school.
Former President Bill Clinton had a similar choice. Should he send his daughter, Chelsea, to public or private school? An ardent supporter of the public schools and a foe of school choice, Mr. Clinton decided to send her to one of the most expensive and exclusive private schools in the Washington, D.C. area. I think, in this particular test, he scored very well as a father. But as a political leader, his denial of educational choice to others, while exercising such choice for himself, was obviously hypocritical.
The issue of school choice isn't going away. The recent Supreme Court decision cleared the issue of various constitutional challenges. Now the political battle begins anew. Where does your representative stand? Is his position, "Do as I say, not as I do"?
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