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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (3334)	10/21/2000 11:33:40 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

The voucher issue is a huge issue for me. Because I believe very strongly in the separation of church and state I don't want public money going to private religions schools- and this would be the inevitable result of a voucher system, since so many private schools are religious. Further, if the public schools in urban areas are bad already, draining more money out of them to create a separate private system certainly isn't going to make them any better. I realize you didn't want your children exposed to the kind of diversity you saw in the public schools- so you pulled them out, but do we as a society want to subsidize you pulling out? If you had stayed with the public schools you might have made a difference. You might have worked hard to change the school- some parents do. What we subsidize we get more of- and I do not want to subsidize flight from the public schools.