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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19058)	8/9/2002 2:22:37 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

"I support vouchers because the public school system appears beyond hope" And I repudiate vouchers because society is not beyond hope. There is divisiveness inherent in a system of indoctrination which intends to perpetuate a particular religious dogma as an open agenda. The educational system is the primary vehicle for shaping the culture and dogmas of society and ultimately of the State. If education is given over to partisan religious interests then the stage is set for endless acrimony and bitter contempt. In the end, everything that America stands for will be destroyed.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (19058)	8/9/2002 7:43:06 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

And lots of things originally conceived for bad reasons have proven to be good in changed circumstances. I was not arguing for or against vouchers. I was making a very specific and narrow point directed at an article that OMD posted. It said: <<Meanwhile, it's worth stressing the spectacle of reform opponents -- good "liberals" all -- invoking a century-old relic of religious bigotry in order to keep children shackled to our nation's worst schools. Their methods evoke the poll taxes and grandfather clauses that were hastily employed by states after Reconstruction to deny blacks suffrage guaranteed them by the U.S. Constitution. What lovely moral company the NAACP and the teachers' unions now keep.>> The article was referring to the ignoble, bigoted genesis of the Blaine amendment. I was simply pointing out that there was also an ignoble, bigoted genesis on the other side, which the author or the article neglected to note. I was simply struck by the irony and by the selective use of history by the author to cast the opponent in an unfavorable light. Mine was a very narrow point, which, like the author's, had nothing to do with the merits of vouchers.