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Diane Denish Wants Poor/Your Kids Trapped in Failing Schools
I happened to be watching the local news last night when a story ran about the ongoing scheduling debacle at Rio Grande High. It has been more than two weeks since the APS school year started and the school doesn't even have student schedules worked out.
Heading into the first commercial break was this lovely ad from Diane Denish:
Apparently, the fact that hundreds of students have wasted more than two weeks of school due to an entirely avoidable blunder is a clear indicator to Denish that we should make sure that "no resources should be diverted" from these failing government-run schools. Heaven forbid that these kids receive a voucher or "opportunity scholarship" that gets them out of this failing school, but that might involve diverting some resources from the clearly-incompetent folks at Rio Grande High.
If we were talking about her kids, Denish would use her personal wealth to pull her own kids out of a failing school, but not everyone has her resources. So those kids remain trapped, waiting for the bureaucrats to get a schedule together.
Heading into the first commercial break was this lovely ad from Diane Denish:
Apparently, the fact that hundreds of students have wasted more than two weeks of school due to an entirely avoidable blunder is a clear indicator to Denish that we should make sure that "no resources should be diverted" from these failing government-run schools. Heaven forbid that these kids receive a voucher or "opportunity scholarship" that gets them out of this failing school, but that might involve diverting some resources from the clearly-incompetent folks at Rio Grande High.
If we were talking about her kids, Denish would use her personal wealth to pull her own kids out of a failing school, but not everyone has her resources. So those kids remain trapped, waiting for the bureaucrats to get a schedule together.
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Permalink Reply by Lee Kershner on -
More government control not the answer. National Education Department reform necessary, preferably shifting power to individual states with a modicum of oversight by the U.S. government.
"Voucher advocates may argue that private schools can avoid any threat to their independence by refusing to accept vouchers. But vouchers would put such independent schools at a severe disadvantage in the market. The schools would have to compete against both regular "free" government schools and "free" private schools that accept vouchers. It is easy to imagine independent education mostly disappearing under these circumstances. As economist Gary North has argued, parents who want to educate their child in a truly independent school would have to
locate other parents equally committed religiously and ideologically to the principle of independent education, and also financially able to put their preference into action. How many concerned parents will do this? How many private school administrators will be able to operate a school while denying admittance to those who would pay with vouchers? How many of these schools with real commitment to private education will there be? I can tell you: very, very few.
The independent schools would not be killed off by genuine market competition; they would be killed off by government privileges extended to some schools – those willing to accept government control – and not others. A program that would do this cannot be called libertarian."
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