[jazusamo]

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[redgolum]

I am against school choice. There is a number of flaws with the theory.

First off, you have to ask why the school is “bad”. Is it the teachers? The amount of funding? Or the students? (If the kids come from a place where education is frowned on, they will not have a good shot no matter where they go).

Second, once a private school starts taking State money, it is no longer a private school. The State will start dictating on how that school will operate, and you may end up as bad as the old public schools.

Third, don’t hold up Charter schools as an example. They are VERY selective on who gets in, stays in, and the requirements of the teachers. If you take that away, the performance will fall.

[lurk]

Not sure how it can happen, or if it can happen, but conservatives need to take their message to the ghettos, both urban and academic.

[smoothsailing]

Blacks are one thing, but it's women who pose the biggest threat! REPEAL the 19th Amendment! B^)

Gallup: 2012 election had the largest gender gap in recorded history

The gender gap in the 2012 presidential election was the largest since Gallup began tracking the metric in 1952, according to data released by the polling firm on Friday.


President Obama won women by 12 percentage points, while Mitt Romney won men by 8.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/267101-gallup-2012-election-had-the-largest-gender-gap-in-history

[driftless2]

I’m sorry Dr. Sowell, there’s nothing appeals by Pubbies to get blacks to vote for them that will work.

[grania]

Sowell's off base again. School choice means that minorities from the inner cities can bring the kids to suburban and high-performing schools in other neighborhoods. They bring their bad habits with them, and are even less accountable because the kids are nowhere near their homes, so the parents aren't there if need be. Those children and parents don't have the neighborhood contacts that build and improve behavior when it's a neighborhood school.

A better message to blacks would be enpowerment. Bring the young ones back to neighborhood schools and take ownership of the problems in the local school.

And PS Mr Sowell: Most loyal conservative voters don't want kids from inner city neighborhoods going to their local schools in the name of school choice.

[rdb3]

Thank you for this thread, jazusamo.

It brings out certain people...

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.

[Altura Ct.]

So if ‘race doesn’t matter’, why do we have to appeal to the black community?