Or, in terms of education - wealthy people have a wide variety of choices in the education of their children. They can choose to send them to a public school, or to private schools, because if the wealthy person loses the money for 'their child' to a public school, it's not as big a deal. Poor people, however, do not have this choice. They HAVE to send their kid to the local public school, because they do not have the spare money to ignore the price of what it takes to education a child.
School vouchers represent the CHOICE that money gives to wealthy people. School vouchers would reduce the gap between wealthy children and poor children in getting a choice in education - but Democrats regularly work against school vouchers, keeping the good schools for the wealthy, and keeping their control over poor people by deciding what schools they are allowed to go to.
And you can look at my livejournal (through ysabet's name) for my personal history with the Milwaukee Public School system. I won't recount the entire thing here - but suffice to say I have excellent reason to see them as caring NOTHING for the education of the students or the conditions they learn in. Seeing as they told me flat out that the quality of work done is not a priority in any way for them.
*deep breath* *lets it out slowly*
And yes. That's the SHORT version.
So in briefer-brief:
They cluster people at the lower end of the spectrum, remove opportunities for people to get ahead through making individual deals and choices by legislating that every employee must be treated the same, price-set vital elements of our economy, and remove our choices.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Cite evidence, please.
Date: 2011-02-25 06:25 pm (UTC)School vouchers represent the CHOICE that money gives to wealthy people. School vouchers would reduce the gap between wealthy children and poor children in getting a choice in education - but Democrats regularly work against school vouchers, keeping the good schools for the wealthy, and keeping their control over poor people by deciding what schools they are allowed to go to.
And you can look at my livejournal (through ysabet's name) for my personal history with the Milwaukee Public School system. I won't recount the entire thing here - but suffice to say I have excellent reason to see them as caring NOTHING for the education of the students or the conditions they learn in. Seeing as they told me flat out that the quality of work done is not a priority in any way for them.
*deep breath* *lets it out slowly*
And yes. That's the SHORT version.
So in briefer-brief:
They cluster people at the lower end of the spectrum, remove opportunities for people to get ahead through making individual deals and choices by legislating that every employee must be treated the same, price-set vital elements of our economy, and remove our choices.