[gueroloco]

On the contrary, I am anti-voucher and want government out of the education business. I simply fail to see how an atheist spokesman can call Bush's praising of Catholic schools for having high academic standards "false and misleading". The spokesman apparently thinks that high standards are a "luxury" public schools cannot adopt , implying that parochial schools have some sort of unfair advantage. That parochial schools choose not to set the bar as pathetically low as the public schools is neither false nor misleading. It is a fact. The "luxury" that public schools do enjoy, in almost every case, is a much larger financial resource base(taxes) to draw from. Given this distinct advantage, one is left to wonder, "Why is public education such a miserable failure?'

[attagirl]

"Why is public education such a miserable failure?"

In a nutshell, because it is meant to be. As Charlotte Iserbyt has chronicled, it's a "deliberate dumbing down." Look her up on google. She knows what she's talking about.

Well, it is true, you know, that Catholic schools do not have to educate all who come to its doors.

Having said that, the same creeps who lurk at the NEA and DOE are at the Catholic Education Assn. and (sometimes)the dioceses. So the fact that there are standards at all is testimony to the goodness of those who want to educate rather than indoctrinate and follow fads.

p.s. the fact that there's less money is a real plus too. Education is not what's expensive--it's indoctrination which is.

[rdb3]

On the contrary, I am anti-voucher and want government out of the education business.

It's always nice to know who your enemies are.