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To: JBTFD who wrote (344612)	1/18/2003 4:19:46 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

re:"If you do vouchers then private schools can and will cherry pick the best and easiest students." Are you trying to say that more are going to be left behind than are now? In the current situation, what percentage of inner city kids graduate from high school. Of a hundred inner city elementary school children, how many go on and graduate college - under the current system?

To: JBTFD who wrote (344612)	1/18/2003 7:31:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

You raise a good point, but an even better point is that vouchers may break suburban schools that at this point are not "broken". If children start leaving the good suburban public schools for private religious schools, it will be a tragedy for any dream we may have had of non-separatist communities. As we can see on SI, when some people can fit themselves into little niches with like minded individuals, they will do that, no matter how narrow the niche may make them. Now people in America have every right to be as narrow, and separatist as they want to be, but I don't think we ought to fund that urge with tax dollars. What I think most people want is more congruency in our society, not less. Public schools, for all their faults, give children a common denominator within communities. I would think we would want to work harder on making sure all our children have more common ground, and a more elevated common denominator, as opposed to dismantling the system that gives it to them.