[rdb3]

In your dreams will I say "no" to them (and I don't even have kids).

For all you voucher naysayers, has it ever occurred to you how huge this ruling was for our side and how detrimental it was for the teachers' unions? We get a victory and I'll be doggone if we hurry up and throw it away. Political understanding is not very high on our side. But keep up the mantra. I'll work to marginalize the negativity because this is huge for us, even if some of us can't seem to get their minds around it.

[mafree]

Vouchers won't solve every problem with education but they're better than nothing. They've given many low-income families more of a stake in their childrens' education.

[Twodees]

RD, how is this a win for "our side"? Our goal when we voted for Reagan and later for the republican overthrow in Congress was to abolish the federal Department of Education, not to chip away at the iron fist of control over our kids' futures with a shell game like this voucher idea. A giant win for our side would be to get the dismantling of the DoEd back into the national discourse again. Vouchers are too little, too late as well as being a total pig in the poke. The only place vouchers could work are at the county property tax level. Why then is this an issue for Congress? If you want vouchers in your county, get to work and get the provision adopted. Congress critters don't want this to be addressed at the level of county property taxes because it will leave out everyone who is currently freeloading anyway. That's how it should be: if you pay property taxes, you can get relief of those taxes in proportion to how much tuition you pay a private school or in proportion to how much county property tax is spent per student in the county schools. that this is not what is being discussed by the politicians should tell you something. It should tell you that they have another welfare scam in mind.