Posted on 01/03/2003 5:57:11 AM PST by NautiNurse
Will do. As soon as I get a chance to do some very basic search engine queries. Don't know why this isn't obvious to you unless you have just run out of anything to argue and don't want to quit. Ever bother to notice that almost all the schools you see around are public shcools? It should be obvious to anyone with eyes taht the public schools dominate. And why do I have to believe any Freepers are liberals? I mentioned the population at large as consisting of liberals and conservatives, not freepers. Don't feel like naming names, but there are a few Freepers that seem liberal. Some even say so on their home pages or in posts.
Ask your riddles of someone else. I'm tired now and don't feel like it. Riddles and jokes aren't my style.
Just make sure you provide numbers of FReepers and other conservatives that like to send their children to public schools. That should be an interesting number.
Oh, come on now! That's getting into subjectivism and relativism and you know that neither you or I could make that judgment! I could assert that the majority of freepers and conservatives that send their children to public school either like or don't like to with equal validity. If you want to set standards with ill defined or undefined meanings, you are doing exactly the thing that most of my liberal aquantainces do. That way they can never lose an argument in thier own mind or have to consider their position's validity: they can just keep changing a meaning so that they never have to be wrong.
My daughter goes to private religious school. It isn't that I like to spend almost 4000 a year doing this, it is that it's the right thing to do. And I don't hae lots of money. You probably have more that I do.
So, where do/did your children go and why?
A long time ago, I decided what was right and wrong. I decided to do what was right whenever within my power whether it felt good or bad, whether I wanted to or not. This is what I call charachter. If I have to make major sacrifices in my life to to what is right, then I do it. I don't always like to do it, I just do it!
IMO, there is no reason for anyone to voluntarily send thier children to public school. Period! The cost of living in a big house, driving new cars, owning a boat, taking vacations is not reason to put your children in Public school! A court order (backed up by the guys with ski masks and machine guns) is about all I would consider a valid involuntary reason.
Ok, so try here
As you can see, the numbers of private schooleed students have dropped since 1965 from 13% to around 11%. Homeschooled students are difficult to number but lets assume that the 2% decline is due to home schooling. That makes 13% privately educated today.
The votes in the last election between a liberal (Gore) and a conservative (G.W. Bush) were roughly 50/50, which is as good an indicator of liberal/conservative ratio in the general population as any. The ratio of children per family is probably about the same, although it could be argued that conservatives may have larger families than liberals; abortion and such are liberal things, you know. Even if the entire 13% of private schooled children were from conservative families, that would leave nearly 75% of conservatives placing their children in public schools.
That's all the education I intend to provide you for now. If you need more education, then go get it yourself and get back to me when you have it. Education isn't my job, and we were talking about lawyers and tort reform to begin with.
Even a three-quarters or two-thirds vote on the basis of 'clear and convincing evidence' would be an improvement.
Two other things we need to do are to make it harder to strike intelligent working and professional people from a jury (the plaintiff's lawyer just loves to pack the jury with ignorant, envious welfare cadgers with nothing better to do), and to institute 'loser pays'. And make sure the lawyer has to pay some too, if it is a frivolous suit!
-ccm
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