[AppyPappy]

Liberals always want to sacrifice other people’s children.

[RexBeach]

Yup. Remember where Al Gore went to school in DC? It wasn’t the public school system.

Even in northern Virginia, James Carville sends his kids to private school.

[cricket]

Liberals always want to sacrifice other people’s children.

Other people's children. . .other people's money. It is always the same. . .

. . .Liberalism imagines itself as an 'enforced charitiy' for the greater good. Coercive. . .corrosive application of what should be 'personal choice'; not collective enforcement of charitable ideals which by it's own inauthenticity, this charity is destined to be rendered, null and void.

Can feel this Lib's angst; as he make a private decision for his own son.

Doubt even yet, he really smells the coffee here. . .

[untrained skeptic]

I wouldn't say that the guy is too liberal. He got personally involved with both his godson's education and his own child's education.

He wanted parents to have input and provide oversight for the schools.

Those aren't really liberal attitudes.

He didn't have faith that they just needed the right people in charge of the bureaucracy while suggesting that it was solely the government's duty to educate kids.

He may have been blind to many of the issues until they effected him personally, but we are all guilty of that to some extent.

I don't know anything else about the author than what he wrote in this article, but this article doesn't make him sound like a liberal to me.

[gogeo]

In the end, though, I couldn't sacrifice my son to an education system that seems at best inefficient and at worst willfully corrupt. As much as I admire Mayor Fenty, I can't help noting that his children go to a private school.

And if he doesn't send his kids to D.C. schools, why should I?

Something to ask those "progressive" friends who visit Cuba and talk about how great it is...if they aren't willing to live there, they should shut up.