Re: Vouchers lost in court, deserve no new chance

Werner <whetzner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On May 5, 1:51 pm, Bob LeChevalier <loj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Peter Franks <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >buckeye wrote:
>> >> Peter Franks <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> >> ...
>> >> [**] Whether people should be forced to contribute money for
collectivist
>> >> social institutions or not is a separate issue altogether. As long
as
>> >> the system exists, for better or worse, everyone has to be treated
equally.
>>
>> >No, it is not a separate issue altogether.  It is actually THE source
of
>> >the issue -- does the purpose(s) of legitimate government include
social
>> >program creation and management?
>>
>> Yes, at least in this country, since long before it was a country.
>>
>> Such has been the case since:
>> <Text of the Massachusetts School Law of 1642
>...
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>surely you don't maintain schools are equal.

Yes.

>Paying for the system is also not equal.

That's life.

>Teachers have tenure. Most people don't.

They call them "contracts".  Those people who negotiate contracts have
whatever protections are built into them.

Public school "tenure" is pretty minimal protection.

>Teachers have lots of things that many other people don't get.

Yeah.  The chance to pay for the supplies needed to do their job out
of their own pocket when the school district doesn't budget enough.
The op****tunity to get among the lowest starting salary of any
profession that requires a 5 year degree program in order to get in
the front door.

>Why not have a law permitting vouchers that is equally available to
>all?

Because "we the people" don't want one.  Vouchers on the ballot have
been voted down dozens of times in numerous jurisdictions.

Why should we?  It gets us nothing that we don't already have.

I have no interest in paying for someone to go to religious school.  I
got a good public school education and so did my kids.  Those who want
something else can find the money themselves.

lojbab
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