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To: LindyBill who wrote (1499)	5/26/2003 11:08:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793860

Suburban schools with lots of money are great. Most people are happy with their public school. The problems are in the inner cities, where children are needy, and have no support. If you give vouchers, the parents who are concerned will leave, and you will be left with a dead and dying public institution, sucked dry, and containing children you have thrown away, before they had a chance. If religious schools wish to help the needy, let them do their duty without the mammon of the state. Let them be Christian enough to pay for their own religious sentiments, and put their money where their religion is. I am all for that- the more people helping the needy the better- but let's not let the religious camel walk away with the tent- the tent that is supposed to be secular. IMO the solution in the inner cities is a full out "war" on poverty and ignorance. New facilities, with the ability to house students who need to be be cared for, and places for parents to be educated as well. Full out work programs (heavily sponsored by the state) so that children will see their parents working, and thus break the cycle of poverty thinking that holds some families in thrall for generations. Many people want a "war" on terror- even though poverty and ignorance in thus country have far more casualties. 9/11 was nothing compared to the men we have incarcerated, or the dead from drugs and hopelessness- the victims of poverty and ignorance clog up our inner cities- and we look the other way- and say money won't fix that. Right. I never met a problem money and creativity wouldn't fix- if you have, maybe you overestimated the amount of creativity you had, or underestimated the funding necessary. Let us have a war on poverty and ignorance, and let us spend on it, just for starters, what the stupid war on Iraq cost. PS- he talks about what a GREAT school the Rye kids have. Your homework assignment is to re-read that book. And if you think bright folks with graduate degress will normally work for 22 or even 44k in california, you're dreaming. My hubby bought me a car that cost more than my entire salary. He's an engineer, and I'm not sure why engineers (and even garbage men) should make more than teachers. So you think that is rational? Shouldn't we try to attract the best and the brightest? I can tell you right now, the best and the brightest are few and far between in our schools (there were more when women had fewer choices, and a lot of the best remaining teachers are older, and chose the career because it was the only one open to them- but THEY are retiring), and that should not be the case (imo)- but then I'd like to see things get better.