No school vouchers, no charter schools, what’s next, no home schooling?
The liberals are out of control; this new found power that they have has gone straight to their heads, and hopefully it will be the cause of their demise. The ironic thing is how most of what they are doing is hurting the poor of this country, who by the way, this is the ironic part, are the ones who put them in power.
On top of the democrats trying to destroy the future of poor children by limiting their school choices, they have also placed an unfair tax on the poor by raising the tax on tobacco. A pack of cigarettes now costs 60 cents more, and a 50 count box of cigars now costs $17.50 more. The cigar tax is what really ticks me off, sense I smoke cigars. I just found out about this 700% increase in the cigar tax today, and now I’m as mad as Hell, and they will pay for what they are doing to us.
Of course I’m talking about at the ballot box, and nothing more. I am not advocating violence in any way. I feel I need to say that because if I don’t, then some dim witted liberal will accuse me of inciting violence against dim witted liberals, which I am not.
Once the poor of this country realize that the democrats are really not interested in them becoming more independent and successful, then that is when we will have real change. A poor black family with children, who are well educated by a school of their choice with the assistance of a voucher program, will be so much better off than a poor black family that is eternally dependent on the government for all of their needs.
This is why the democrats are against school vouchers, because vouchers will in the end make the poor better educated and more able to take care of their own needs without crawling to the government for help. The former poor will then no longer have a need for the democrats and therefore they will no longer vote for them; they will have been freed of their chains.
I believe that the conservatives, and which ever party wants to represent them, should grab onto this issue and run with it. This one issue may very well be the key to the future of our country. I do not believe that I am overstating this because as we all know, the children are the future, and those who control their education, will by that means, control the future.
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D.C. Families Bemoan Imminent Loss of Voucher Program
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has decided not to offer vouchers for new students because Congress extended the program for only one more school year.
The D.C. program gives about 1,700 low-income children scholarships worth up to $7,500, paid for with federal taxpayer dollars each year to cover costs of attending private schools — rather than the long-troubled D.C. public schools. The five-year pilot program was set to expire this year until Congress extended the program for only one more school year.
As a result, Education Secretary Arne Duncan decided not to offer vouchers for new students.
“To put them in for a year and then put them out didn’t make sense,” he said.
The issue of vouchers has exposed a deep fissure between Republicans, who support them, and Democrats, who oppose them.
Republicans insist that parents deserve a choice if their kids are in failing schools, saying vouchers create competition that puts pressure on public schools to do better.
Democrats, teachers’ unions and other opponents say it is impossible to expect public schools to do better while precious public dollars are being siphoned away to private schools.
But the voucher program in Washington has been an exception in the debate over vouchers. Because of the sorry state of public schools in the nation’s capitol, some Democrats were willing to allow it in 2003 when a Republican-led Congress created the voucher program.
It is the only federal voucher program in the country. Other cities and states have similar programs — vouchers are available in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Florida, Utah, Arizona and Georgia — but they are paid for with local tax dollars.
Supporters of vouchers have said teachers unions are putting pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to kill the voucher program in Washington. But Duncan insists that had nothing to do with it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/14/dc-families-bemoan-imminent-loss-voucher-program/
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