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This could be a real boost for the school choice movement. It's been very hard to get suburbanites behind choice because most are satisfied with their local schools. This effort at indoctrination could finally motivate them for choice and reform.

Posted by Lady Eileen to winner3000 On News/Activism 04/28/2003 10:52 AM EDT #37 of 58

winner3000: Education reform and tort reform in my opinion are the most important domestic issues needed to strengthen America.

LE: In my opinion, the only education reform that will work is educational liberty, which is complete separation of the state from education. Vouchers, however better than the current regime, don't restore this liberty, because they still require the state to coercively extract money from taxpayers, including many who don't have children.

I agree with you in theory, but the reality seems to be that dismantling the public educrat establishment won't happen in my lifetime. So, I'll take vouchers and competition as the next best thing.

IMHO in an unrestricted voucher regime where parents would have true choice, a lot of the nuttiness in the public schools would disappear very quickly.