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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3585)	10/25/2000 6:59:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10042

Schools are a bit different then soda. In any remotely likely actual plan public schools and charter schools would remain, it would not be completly private. With or without public schools no one is likely to get 51% of the market for education in our country. In any case even if someone does the competition from the other 49% will be a lot better then trapping people in bad public schools with no competition. Many of the best universities in the country are public. Many are private. But the private one's discriminate based upon wealth. They don't discriminate they charge for their services. Public schools do as well but they charge everyone and get money no matter how poorly they perform. If one wants to stratify your country into educational haves and havenots then we should go right ahead with vouchers at the lower grade levels as well. Vouchers would have the exact opposite effect. The have-nots would no longer be stuck in bad schools. They would get the same choice that those with more money have now. Tim