Please, don't send me more messages !!!!
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From: "wizardmarks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: Vouchers
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > It has long been my understanding (though I am no expert yet) that
> > vouchers are supposed to be all or part of the amount a public school
> > would get per student. If this is the case, then how would a voucher
> > program "divert funds" unjustly?
> >
> > Let me explain: say my child goes to public school A, and I decide it's
> > a rotten place. The next year, I enroll him/her in public school B.
Due
> > to the change in enrollment numbers, school B is now allocated the funds
> > which were, the year before, going to school A for my kid. Would this
> > scenario be so bad? I think that's the whole concept of vouchers in a
> > nutshell - except that we have to monkey around more with with the
> > process of moving funds between a public and private school.
>
> Here's a possible scenario: my kid is extremely bright, she's not getting
> what she needs from public school. I think she belongs at St. Paul
Academy
> where she will not only get academics, but will rub elbows with kids from
> wealthy and middle class homes. With a voucher, she can't even come close
to
> the amount it would take to not only go to the school she needs, but take
> part in that social life. She's also an African-American Muslim. We live
on
> a fixed, very small income. What good is a voucher to my kid who needs
not
> only good academics, but access? To say that vouchers will even touch the
> poor in any real was is mouse poop. To say that poor kids, even more than
> other kids, need access to the resources of a private school education, is
to
> state the obvious.
> Therefore, vouchers are not meant to make different public schools
accessable
> to a wider group of students, but to pull middle class kids from the
public
> schools to the private ones, therefore pulling money out of the public
schhol
> system and away from my kid and all the other kids like her. Why would I
> support the privileges of the middle class and wealthy against the needs
of
> my own child? That would be way dumb.
> Wizard Marks
>
>
> >
> >
> > Additionally, the claim that vouchers "doom poor families... with an
> > inordinate burden of payments," is symptomatic of the elitism which so
> > deeply permeates contemporary "liberal" thought. Would you tell me that
> > an appliance shop down the street will doom ME in such a way? Of course
> > not! If I can't afford a new jen-aire washing machine, I simply will
not
> > buy it.
> >
> > Poverty does not equal stupidity, nor irresponsibility, nor does it
> > denote bad parenting. I believe (as an inner-city resident with an
> > income WAY below the so-called poverty level) that vouchers would be an
> > incredible asset to working families (especially minorities) who
> > currently have mediocre choice for the means by which their children are
> > educated. I personally know of many in my neighborhood that agree.
> >
> > Connie Sheppard
> > Ward 6 - Ventura Village
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:03:30 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > In a message dated 11/3/00 6:11:15 PM Central Standard Time,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >
> > > << The problem with vouchers go beyond the concerns raised by Stack
> > > to one
> > > simple
> > > fact: they don't work to help students. >>
> > >
> > > After discussing this subject with a very interesting MPS
> > > Psychologist
> > > Thursday evening, I reviewed statistics that inevitably lead me to
> > > conclude
> > > that she was rightfully concerned with the use of vouchers as they
> > > do more
> > > harm than good. In short, my research indicates that the voucher
> > > program
> > > diverts needed funds from the very schools and students who need it
> > > most.
> > > More importantly, it further dooms poor families and their students
> > > with an
> > > inordinate burden of payments that the families cannot afford. Thank
> > > you Ms.
> > > Park Avenue for such gentle persuasion and insight into this
> > > problem.
> > > And...........a DFL'r with whom I agree. Strange bedfellows??
> > >
> > > Robert Anderson
> > > Minneapolis
> > > Independence Candidate, House 61B
> >
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