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To: JDN who wrote (256984)	8/21/2003 11:45:13 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Best I can tell, the school voucher program may benefit conscientious children and parents, rich or poor. But in some sense it does abandon hope for the youngest children who have no one to make good choices for them, who could end up herded into institutions that are nothing but day-care stretching into reformitories: places to warehouse underachievers for a certain number of years. It appears that many "schools" already fit that description, but at least they aren't officially committed to such a role. But vouchers do seem the best thing for the better students and also for the country as a whole. Vouchers are the conservative reaction to the program of forced bussing, where school were used as an agent to promote social and economic equality, and the net effect of the use of vouchers might well be to resegregate schools to some extent, along religious lines as well as racial. I would guess that the representation of black and hispanic students in mainly white schools would be well maintained, but that there would be schools that were as much as 90% "minority," partly by choice, partly by default.