A city wide blackout at Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:13:16 GMT did not prevent Gunner
from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On 19 Feb 2004 14:13:11 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

See above. There is NO free market when ones educational dollars are
locked into payments to public schools.

Ever hear of the Company Store?

That's such crap. There is no reason that folks can't vote
with their money and they do so ever single day. Sure they
have to pay taxes for public schools. They can't get out
of that.

Jim


Jim , when you are taxed to within an inch of your life or low income,
there is NO extra money for private school. You are locked into the
public school. No hope of getting a new and improved version. Same
with the Company Store. You either spend your money there, or starve.

Vouchers use that same money and allow you to spend it in a better
store, where you are not paying inflated prices for shoddy goods.

Like I said elsewhere, the current "public education" system is comparable
to paying for a Mercedes and getting a Trabat. Those who can afford to, can
purchase a Mercedes and ignore the Trabat, but they are going to pay for that
first car whether they like it or not. Unless you are one of those people who
dings up their shins tripping over the gold bars in the living room, getti9ng a
working car is out of reach.
All vouchers do is say "here is a voucher for a 'car' payment, up to X
dollars" which the purchaser can then take to what ever dealer they want and
get the 'car' they want. They can spend less than X, they can make up the
difference between X and the tuition, but event the poorest single mom can now
afford to send her kid to a "better" school.

The caveat I have on vouchers is that they can be restricted to
"accredited" schools, meaning schools very little different than the unionized
closed shops of the public school system.
But as for me, if thirteen wiccans want to form an Education Coven, as long
as the kids can read, write and cipher, they've met the minimum standards for
schooling. But don't mistake "schooling" for "education".
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."