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

To: epicure who wrote (3343)	10/21/2000 11:58:21 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You see vouchers as draining money from the system and I see continuing to pour money into a system that seems to make little improvement year after year as equally disastrous. I am willing to examine any alternatives that might make a difference.

To: epicure who wrote (3343)	10/23/2000 1:15:17 PM
From: TimF	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. Do you have a problem with money from the GI Bill or from federal scholarships going to private religious universities? 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. If the public schools response to competition then they will get better. If they are so hopeless that even this does not get them to change then they will in the long run be replaced. 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? Our society almost universally supports subsidizeing education. Once that is decided we need to determine how we are going to provide that subsidy. We can either provide it in a relatively rigid bureaucratic socialist system, or we can provide a subsidy and then after that let competition work to provide the best education at a reasonable cost. Tim