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To: geode00 who wrote (191765)	7/17/2006 5:45:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The US has a world standard university education system and a generally lousy pre-university education system. Why is that? Because students are able to choose what university they wish to attend. Universities must compete for students. Most parents can't afford to choose where their children go to elementary through high school. Giving parents a voucher for the money the school system would spend on their education would give them choices. People who are well enough off can make this choice, but the poor can't. Those who oppose vouchers, liberals IOW, don't really care about the education of poor children. And we are all worse off for that callous indifference.

To: geode00 who wrote (191765)	7/18/2006 12:50:43 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

France has a far better pre-university school system than America. And it's entirely government run. I've lived there and saw this. The problems of running a university system are not the same as those of running grade and middle schools. What "works" for US universities is not a magic formula for our grade schools. If there is a magic formula at all, it's broad social consensus that education for everyone really is important. As long as the right wing agenda of concentrating wealth in the hands of the fortunate few in this country continues its course, American primary school education will continue to decline.