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To: tejek who wrote (125450)	10/6/2000 1:13:08 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1570497

Whereas the school voucher program is a new program that will most likely : 1) Prompt the development of a duplicate school system. 2) become a permanent program and will have far reaching ramifications for this country. 3) Require a whole new level of gov't bureaucracy to oversee and evaluate the new schools being created. 4) Effect a large number people as well as their chidren. 1 - That's like saying AMD has had the negative consqiuence of prompting the development of a duplicate of chipset/motherboard infrastucture. Yes there are extra costs but the benifits of compatiton outweigh them. Also with schools its not like the number of schools double and then people choose. Some of the old schools could become charter schools, in some places some of them would run under the same system, the new schools would grow over time not suddenly come in to existance creating a vast over capacity. People would have the freedom to choose what schools they wanted to send there children to. 2 Yes and the far reaching ramifications would be positive. 3 If done right it should result in less burocracy, but I do concede that it is quite possible that in practice it would result in more. 4 Yes see my answer to #2. Also at least at first most of the effect would not be that the students are in different schools but that the public schools have to improve to meet the competition. Most new computers still have Intel CPUs but if it wasn't for AMDs competition with Intel how fast would CPUs be now? Tim