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Originally posted by baltassoc
Wow. That's a leap I didn't see. Of course, that may be because I went to public schools in an area where the teachers unions were little more than social clubs.
I don't really feel up to the voucher debate right now, so I'm going to leave it at that.
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Since I can't seem to drag myself out of this, I'm going to expand a bit.
I think my view on this debate is sharply shaped by my personal experience: as bad as the public schools I attended may have been, the private schools in the area, all parochial (but none of them Catholic) were much, much worse. Like can't do math at all worse. Like can only read at all so that one can read the Bible worse. Like schools that choose to respond to the evolution debate by simply omitting
biology, chemistry and physics from the curriculum, replacing the time public schools waste on those classes with bible study.
For every voucher that would be used to send a kid to a better, happens-to-be-affliated-with-a-church school, at least one would be used to send a kid to a worse, doesn't-just-happen-to-be-affliated-with-a church-but rather that's the reason it's worse school.
That's what I hear when I hear "vouchers." I hear I'm paying for nutcases to send their kids to nutcase schools.
