Reply #129: I'm sorry [View All]

[Pithlet]

I just don't think that we give up. DC sounds like its problem is gross mismanagement. I often hear as an argument for vouchers that it is a lost cause, because we can't reorganize/fund/educate them cuz they're lazy druggie criminals, etc. So we should just wash our hands of the failures, and privatize. I'm just not buying that. I'm especially not buying it because not every child who could be saved, will. Perhaps if that were the case I'd not be so vehemently against them. It's a defeatist attitude, and one that will leave horrible schools even more in the dust, and allow the richer ones to flourish and even benefit.

I went to public schools for most of my education. And, until my parents gave up and fled, as you did, I went to pretty crappy schools. Most of my classmates were not druggies, or criminals. They were there, and got a lot of attention. But it wasn't even close to the majority of them. I would not see a system that would leave kids like those friends I had in the dust because some people are so blinded that they cannot see that privatizing public education would be the worst thing that could happen to it. The days where education is available to all would be numbered, because those schools we gave up on to "save a few" would eventually disintegrate. Then it becomes not the fact that you were born in America, but the fact that you were born to those who could afford to educate you, that determines your success.