Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/10/02 10:18 PM, Tia wrote:
>
> I think vouchers would be a fine idea, especially if they were used the way
> I read about in one book where they could be used for anything at all
> educational, from a year at a school to computers to books, etc.

Ned jumps in:
Hey, it's OUR money.
>
> But the difficulty here is that money is being taken for education from way
> more than just parents of school aged children. All those retired people
> and people with no children are going to want a say in how the money is spent.
> Tia

Ned responds:

Yes, they might. But do you believe that they have a say in how it's spent
now? I've been going to school board meetings and listening to how school
employees treat parents for years, and I must agree with the careful
observers who say that the schools do whatever suits them with no regard
whatsoever to what the public wants or what is best for the children, unless
it happens to boost the school spending or employment roster.

One author says that schools consider parents to be "unenlightened,
bothersome appendages" to the children.

As for retired and childless people, Why not include homeschoolers and those
who send their kids to private schools. Do we (they) get a say in how school
funds are spent? Heck no. More than likely, we are told that we are
"interlopers" and "anti-education meddlers."

Can anyone tell us why any of those groups should be forced to pay for the
public schools? (yes, I'm familiar with the "public good" argument, but
there are lots of public goods that people are taxed for.)

Should we not discuss this? Whose money is it? We are among the people who
pay, but are not allowed to say how the money is spent.

If we can discuss something so absurdly impertinent as Hell -- without
protest -- why not this, which affects us all.
>><<

Ned Vare
No good deed goes unpunished.