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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
No thanks. I still sincerely believe that conservative solutions like school choice would do more for underserved communities than the Dems have in the last 40 years.
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I could put together and implement a school choice program that would do a ton, but have never seen such a policy proposed by Rs. Instead, their proposals usually serve a few special constituencies of theirs, like Christian home schoolers and private schools with a segregationist past being the most objectionable of them.
I was a kid who escaped from deeply crappy public schools (triple sessions, anybody?) thanks to the generosity of rich Yankees who funded a private school scholarship. Yes, they took smart poor kids like me in to burnish the reputation of a school that served mostly dumb rich druggies, but it worked for both of us.
I think there could be bipartisan solutions to education that cut through a lot of the crap on all sides.
Except for the fact that there isn't a constituency to support those solutions anywhere. Especially among conservatives. Bush really drove that home when he worked with Kennedy on no-child-left-behind and then gutted its funding after passage.
Someday, if we ever meet IRL, I will tell you about my youthful discussions on the topic with James Buckley, brother of Bill.
