Posted on 02/24/2006 10:14:46 AM PST by presidio9
Every now and then, Hillary Clinton lifts the curtain and gives the world a peek at her real views. It's not pretty.
New York's junior senator spoke this week to the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp., raising the issue of tax-funded school vouchers — which many reformers see as a key tool, one that gives parents immediate alternatives to public schools that are failing to educate their kids.
Now, vouchers face a major obstacle in New York: The state constitution's Blaine Amendment arguably bans sending public funds to parochial schools.
Then there' the implacable opposition to vouchers of the United Federation of Teachers and its Albany-based parent, New York State United Teachers — politically potent unions that are entrenched in the failed status quo.
Any alternative to the present system is anathema to the unions and their bought-and-paid-for political minions.
However vouchers have succeeded in Milwaukee, Cleveland and parts of Florida — even if the unions claim that they simply take away precious resources from the public schools.
Hillary could have used that approach — dishonest as the argument may be.
But no, she had to go one step further.
One major demagogic step further.
Hillary waved the specter that vouch- ers would lead to a publicly-funded racist "School of the Church of the White Supremacist" or a radical Muslim "School of the Jihad."
"I won't stand for it," she added.
Of course she wouldn't.
No one would.
Certainly the hypersensitivity that informs public debate in New York and the nation is such that a hate academy of the sort Clinton conjures wouldn't last 10 seconds on the public dime.
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Nearly 60 percent of New York City eighth-graders can't pass eighth-grade state math tests, despite the incremental progress of the Bloomberg regime. -snip-
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Actually, there are Protestant schools. I know of an Episcopalian and a Lutheran school.
Actually it annoys me when I see people photoshop her like that here. Photoshop is a favorite tactic of braindead liberals (to make Bush look like a monkey, etc). Hillary's ugliness needs no help.
She's related to Schmeegle.
You're still missing my point. There really are no Protestant schools in NY to speak of. Friends was the exception and from what I gather, they are not really a religious school anymore (but then again, how would you know if someone was practicing Quakerism in the first place, right?). There are plenty of Jewish and Islamic schools, and literally hundreds of Catholic schools. I don't know why there are so few protestant schools, but, again, I wouldn't read anything into Clinton not specifically mentioning them. If George Bush were here, there would be no point in his mentioning them either.
I can't believe nobody asked her how the "Church of the White Supremacist" became an accredited school!
I did not say there are none. Just that they are the exception.
Which reminds me: NY taxpayers are currently funding the gay Harvey Milk public school. I find this ironic in light of the Senator's comments about what we would and would not want to be paying for.
The Lutheran School is Our Savior, in the Bronx. Correct?
In her mind all Christian education. Throwing in "White Supremacist" was to make it "okay" to impune religious schools.
She's soooo 1960s. Yoohoo, Hillary, we're all over here in the 21st century.
funding the gay Harvey Milk public school.
I think it's a charter school, is it not?
Maybe not, It's stupid to have anyways.
Correct on both your points.
I wonder if the voucher people around here will subsidize me though. I would like the choice to have a child. Since they have that, maybe I could borrow some money from them.
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"white supremecists"; liberal leftist code words for white anglo saxon bible believing males .
Proof that Scooby-Doo fashion never goes out of style...
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