[ALPAPilot]

I am against school choice.

Said by a true statist?

I choose not to send my children to public school - so take that.

Parents should pay for their own children's school. Making the old lady down the street fund it is immoral. If you created the child, then man up and care for them.

[redgolum]

Statist? Not really. Homeschool or send your children to a private school of your choice.

Don't you think it is odd to be against socialized medicine but for socialized education?

[GOPJ]

If the school system's spending $20,000 per year NOT to educate a child - what would be wrong with giving half that money to parents in the form of a voucher?

A voucher they could choose to use at any school that would accept their child. And by choice I don't mean forcing a school to take a child they don't want - that horror has no place in a private system. It hurts the child and sets up a 'pity party mentality' that damages children.

The rough work of integrating pubic schools was just - and worthy - that heavy lifting has been accomplished. That standard should not be applied to private schools (and yeah - that will work for black kids and all kids in the long run.) The difference between seeing yourself as someone who can bully their way into a group - and seeing yourself as someone who has worked for and earned acceptance will be the point where race REALLY doesn't matter.

As far as the old folks down the street? They got a free education and most of them don't mind helping the next generation. Well, as long as the school dollars are being spent to educate rather than indoctrinate PC stupidity.