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Yay or nay to vouchers? I vote ...
If I were running for office or in charge of a large company, I'd want to be, well, them. I'd trust either one to raise and educate anyone's children, mine included.
And yet, for all their similar fine leadership qualities and an obvious shared concern for education, they could not come from more divergent perches when it comes to vouchers.
Eyre, who thinks vouchers are a really good idea, sees the issue from outside the public school classroom looking in.
Rusk, on the other hand, who thinks vouchers are a really bad idea, sees the issue from inside the classroom looking out.
One speaks for the parents, one speaks for the kids.
Vouchers are a step a rather big step toward privatizing education.
Is that a good thing or is that a not good thing?
I don't know the answer to such a question, but I do think that would be a more fair question at the ballot box, rather than veiling the debate in a voucher cloud.
Maybe the Founding Fathers got it wrong. Maybe education should have never gone public in the first place. Who is to say that "education" belongs alongside life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as an inalienable right? Why must we guarantee education to all? We don't do the same when it comes to, say, health care.
Maybe the American tradition of a public education is as myopic and misguided as us not using the metric system and treating soccer like a minor sport.
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