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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (186597)	9/25/2001 6:51:44 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< Just don't tell me that the voucher system is going to change the big picture for the better. It ain't. It's only going to make our at-risk schools even worse. >> I object to vouchers too. Funny that your objection to vouchers is the opposite of mine. I think widespread use of vouchers will ruin the private schools. Miscreants, with oblivious and uncaring parents, will be sent to decent schools and will drag them to the depths of the public schools. The private schools are the ones "at-risk."

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (186597)	9/25/2001 7:34:46 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Just don't tellme that the voucher system is going to change the big picture for the better. It ain't. It's only going to make our at-risk schools even worse. You don't know that until you get rid of the fat cats running our school boards and wasting our school tax dollars and try it on a large scale. You can argue all you want about successes and failures, but until you introduce a realistic system of competition, you don't know. I'm all for fixing our public schools too, but don't tell me the current system of allowing power hungry teacher's unions, and ignorant busybodies, and know it all politicians run our school system is ever going to recognize the problem. They have no interest in educating your child! Oh, and i'm perfectly happy paying teachers what they are worth. If that money can come in from the private sector and my kid gets a better education for it, I'm all for it!!! I don't give a damn if my kid has a computer in his class room. I would rather he learn how to use it! With respect to Bill's half baked argument: you get what you pay for. If you want to pay extra to send ur kid to a school that doesn't accept vouchers, then send them! No voucher system that makes private schools accept kids will ever be successful. The only way this problem will be solved is to divide and conquer the inner city spaces and take them away from the criminal, impersonal, and non-community minded people who are controlling them and make them be part of the solution instead of the problem. Whether that means vouchers or more smaller community minded public schools I don't care. But if you want to talk dollars, private investment through a voucher system is the most economical way to go. The last point that I want to make here is that it's people with agendas that spend all of their time trying to push and quibble over stupid details that make these good ideas fail and the problems NEVER get solved. Compromise and support is the only way to make things work. V