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To: gamesmistress who wrote (554701)	4/16/2014 10:27:25 AM
From: LindyBill	2 Recommendations Recommended By DMaA lightshipsailor Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794827

Charter schools are a way for the Left to deflect the pressure to go to all private schools. They are like cutting the poison you drink in half. They don't get the job done. The time is coming to get the schools switched over to all-private. Get the politicians, school administrators and unions out of the picture. As long as any of them have a say, they will mess it up. I feel we will get to this because, no matter what the Left does, the schools get worse and worse. It's really obvious over here in Hawaii because we have so many private schools. 19 private High Schools on Oahu alone.

To: gamesmistress who wrote (554701)	4/16/2014 11:31:41 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794827

BTW, Red Bank was known for being a "5 years and out" town. Great for singles and young couples, but the people who wanted a good education for their kids moved elsewhere, along with the people who didn't want their kids in the same schools with so many blacks and HIspanics (I knew a few of those). I lived in one of those neighborhoods in DC - a Victorian turn of the century town that straddled the DC/MD border. Similar houses in MD, just 3 blocks away, sold for about 30-40% more than mine and only because Montgomery County had a much better reputation for their schools. A "voucher for all" policy would have increased home values in the DC section of the town (and most of my home-owning neighbors, including Juan Williams and Gwen Ifil, were black. Even though Gwen didn't have kids she moved because the neighborhood just didn't gentrify the way she had expected) to parity or possibly even higher. I also don't think it's solely an issue of race. My black friends also moved when their kids got to school age. When I went to sell my house after my second child was born - I was willing to pay for one private school tuition, but not two - the market slowed and my second grade son had no school to attend in September. If he'd gone to the public school a couple hundred feet from my house, he'd have been the only white kid out of about 800. I scrambled to find him a place until we moved and enrolled him in a Catholic school across town - tuition was $200 a month, and I only had to pay until we moved. The school was about 60-70% black and most of them were Baptists or AME members. I felt very comfortable there; all the kids were well-behaved, and in retrospect in some ways it was better than the highly rated public schools he later attended. It was the last time he got any decent grammar education.