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To: greenspirit who wrote (25194)	10/4/1998 11:42:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Michael, I suspect that my view of the Heritage Foundation is close to yours of the NEA. I really have given up reading Heritage materials because they are so slanted. As I said already, I am perfectly happy that there are experiments with school vouchers, because the results will definitely be interesting. However, most of the important development in children is prenatal, and in the very first few months of life. The most accurate predictor of a child's success in school, in fact, is the mother's level of education. To really expect children who are deprived of adequate stimulation and attention from their parents, and proper nutrition, and grow up poor and in single family homes, to magically do well in school because they are wearing one thing or another, or because some church sets up a voucher school in a basement, seems really unrealistic to me. You are always picking up one small thing or another--the NEA is evil, children should wear uniforms, etc.--and seizing on it as the way to solve very complex problems that begin before the children are even born. Of course, coincidentally all of the things you want to do educationally ensure that fewer of your tax dollars are spent on them.