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To: 1010RD
how do you convince the mushy middle?

For far too many people vouchers are the endgame. I'd take vouchers as a step toward eliminating socialist schools. But I'm interested in getting more voucher supporters to understand that a voucher system is still a socialist system.

The socialized medicine debate is a great teaching tool. The arguments in favor of switching from a capitalist system to socialized medicine are the same arguments for keeping socialized schooling.

As more people see this, the number of people who understand that socialized schools have no more place in a free society than socialized medicine does.

Nothing will change over night. But every person who understands that the private sector can take care of education, the closer we are to returning to a capitalist schooling system.

149 posted on 09/07/2009 7:54:25 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA
We agree in the main. The free enterprise system is already killing the government school system. Our first line has to be keeping the internet tax free.

Next, we must undo laws that grant a teaching monopoly to unions and government schools. This will include: vouchers, eliminating certification for teaching (this will partially be achieved through home schooling support and the automation of so many learning programs - foreign languages, spelling, rote mathematics, etc.), creating educational choice, etc. This is the trickiest part.

The unions and teachers have a death grip on legislatures and school boards. Contracts are long term and built to cause maximum pain to busy parents, i.e. they are set up to expire right as school starts over the summer so that when school starts so do the strikes.

The libs have created a tangled web to reinforce their beliefs and control. We need to untagle it carefully.

152 posted on 09/07/2009 8:20:30 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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