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Looks like you still haven't gotten it.
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I think you have me confused with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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You ask what Dems have done for blacks when they've just elevated a black person to the presidency?
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That's enough to get you pulled over and profiled at a rate 7x the white person's.
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I'm not sure vouchers are the answer to anything.
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Those schools who want to remain exclusive will just raise prices to the point where existing students will get a little bit of a deal but the price will still be too high for anyone who can't afford to go there now. So they'll be stuck in the public schools, few will actually change schools. The main difference will be government money subsidizing private education. Vouchers seem like a good idea on the surface to a free market proponent, but they aren't really because it's really just an expansion of government money into private or religious education, and with that will come mandates and other stuff tied into the funds. Conservatives are supposed to be against that stuff.
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By underclass I mean the children from historically poor and broken families with poor parental support. Just as you see "white flight" with the current system, you will see the same happen in a universal voucher system as well--with many private schools opting out, or raising prices to put it out of reach. The only private school in the area with the capability to help my son turned him down sight unseen. Multiply that by thousands and thousands--millions actually. There is no "magic solution" to our education problem. We need to do the hard work of getting parents more involved, of getting better teachers (and getting rid of bad teachers), holding people accountable. The lady in DC who has proposed to the teachers union that teachers make 6-figure incomes IF they get rid of tenure/job security. Trying to attract a different kind of person to the teaching profession. Pay me $150k to teach sophomore Honors English and coach JV basketball, and hell, maybe even I would think about it. |
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