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To: bentway who wrote (164688)	11/15/2008 5:38:27 PM
From: Aggie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

bentway, hello In a gentle way, I'd suggest that you need to be a parent with a kid in the maw to understand how frustrating public schools can be. Some of them have the authority to "medicate" your kid with or without your permission. Is that scary or what? There's a good bit more - they have quite a bit of power there, and it doesn't all derive from the school board. I come from a third-generation-educator family, university down to grade school levels. And my school aged kid is in public school, which I feel is the best thing for her, in her case - in fact we moved to get into the best district - but I still support vouchers and pay taxes gladly. I like vouchers because I think more people should have a viable choice on where and how their kids are educated, but more importantly, I think their voice where it concerns their kids should be louder than the teacher's unions. These teachers unions are worse than the autoworkers we were just reading about when it comes to cynical entitlements. And as for the second, paying taxes: Well there's really no opt out of infrastructure, conceptually in my view. If you give a voucher the school ain't going broke, it's just having to become better at giving parents what they want for their child. By the way, the assessment that teacher's unions are toxic to education comes from the inside (family educators), not just from me. Regards Aggie