Can someone help me out here? I look at Liberals and I hear incessant ramblings about how they are for the working man, the little people, the minorities and those generally in need. They bemoan the plight of these classes of people and aren't shy about committing billions (and in the case of welfare, trillions) of dollars to organizations and programs aimed at "improving" the lot of these people.
Then I look at education. We are suffering on the global scale with our public education of our children. We've fallen behind. Our public school systems are by and large in a shambles. Look at cities like Baltimore. Only 2 jurisdictions in the country spend more per public school student than Baltimore does. Yet Baltimore schools are abysmal. This is but one example. You can look across the country and follow the dollars to terrible public school systems. The funding isn't working because the bureaucracy and the programs are so broken.
Only a few % of American families can afford private schooling. Otherwise, by and large, families are obligated to endure the public schools they are tied to because of the zip code they live in. Their options are simply to endure, or to move (not feasible for so many) to a better school district.
School vouchers and charter schools aim to help these very people. To allow parents the opportunity to move their children from under performing schools to better schools. School choice. It even sounds like a Liberal slogan.
Yet Liberals rail against giving the poor, the middle class, the inner city people, the minorities the choice to move their children to better performing schools.
This is right up there with Liberals railing against Right to Work laws.
I don't get it.
Can someone give me some viable arguments as to why you'd oppose allowing parents and families to break free from the bonds that tie them to poor schools for their children? Decades of efforts to improve public schooling have failed, by and large. It's somehow right to keep families in this sort of bondage or servitude "waiting" on Big Daddy Government to fix what appears to be an irreparable system? Why stand in the way of empowering families to find the best education possible for their kids?
Then I look at education. We are suffering on the global scale with our public education of our children. We've fallen behind. Our public school systems are by and large in a shambles. Look at cities like Baltimore. Only 2 jurisdictions in the country spend more per public school student than Baltimore does. Yet Baltimore schools are abysmal. This is but one example. You can look across the country and follow the dollars to terrible public school systems. The funding isn't working because the bureaucracy and the programs are so broken.
Only a few % of American families can afford private schooling. Otherwise, by and large, families are obligated to endure the public schools they are tied to because of the zip code they live in. Their options are simply to endure, or to move (not feasible for so many) to a better school district.
School vouchers and charter schools aim to help these very people. To allow parents the opportunity to move their children from under performing schools to better schools. School choice. It even sounds like a Liberal slogan.
Yet Liberals rail against giving the poor, the middle class, the inner city people, the minorities the choice to move their children to better performing schools.
This is right up there with Liberals railing against Right to Work laws.
I don't get it.
Can someone give me some viable arguments as to why you'd oppose allowing parents and families to break free from the bonds that tie them to poor schools for their children? Decades of efforts to improve public schooling have failed, by and large. It's somehow right to keep families in this sort of bondage or servitude "waiting" on Big Daddy Government to fix what appears to be an irreparable system? Why stand in the way of empowering families to find the best education possible for their kids?
