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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (52162)	7/1/2002 6:33:54 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm sorry, but you have no "facts" about what will happen if the whole country goes for vouchers because it has not happened. So far we have very limited data, negligible funds involved, and almost no evidence about how disabled children will fare, or students whose parents are too apathetic to go shopping for schools for them. If you let people choose, frequently they will choose segregated enclaves- not necessarily segregated by money, or race, but much more problematically, segregated by ideology. That is my problem with the systems. You cannot address "fact" number one, because you haven't the date- only hypothesis. And fact number two I would argue is already point proved- people cluster in ideological lumps when they are able- which is their right, but which I do not think we should subsidize if we want people to ever be able to get along. Of course maybe they will never get along. If so segregating early should quicken the process of making us all a product of our enclave.