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To: Neeka who wrote (169888)	6/14/2006 5:28:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793843

Maybe I'm just not meeting that kind of conservative? You and I meet a lot of the same kind of conservatives. We both read this thread, for example, and others on SI. We both read papers and blogs and see stuff on TV. We watch and read candidates and platforms. I'd like to have a nickel for every time someone disparaged public education just on this thread. It's hard to imagine that you missed the academies, the vouchers, the tax revolts, the Ed Dept plank, the religious schools, the home schooling. Just the complaints about how the teachers' unions have ruined public schools would make me a boodle at five cents a post. It's hard to imagine how you could have missed all those posts. All I am saying is that blanket statements like this would be more credible if they were backed up with facts or statistics. What, you want me to go back and count the posts? As for "blanket" statements, had it had an "all" or even a "most" I could see your point. But it said "many," as innocuous as a word can be due to its indefinite nature. Maybe she was talking about the religious right and the fact that many send their kids to private school? Well, yeah. If I may be so audacious as to make what might be interpreted as a blanket statement, many conservatives send their kids to private schools or home school because they don't approve of public education. MANY do. Surely you don't doubt that statement. And even if you do, what about it is so egregious to be worth the bandwidth used to complain about it? Is it an insult to say someone doesn't like public education? I don't think much of our public education system. I'll acknowledge it, so it can't be much of an insult. I don't get what all the fuss is about.