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Interesting. Please do note, MY position is that both the educational

Brad,
Funny thing about education, you only get one shot at it.

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In a message dated 11/23/2008 8:42:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
flybrad at gmail.com writes:

Herb,

Speaking from my own experience, there are good public  schools and bad
ones.  I was fortunate to go to a good one, well  funded (thank you
Chicago for sending your tax dollars down state), with  lot's of
parental involvement (I've already told the story here about my  dad
making asses out of the school board in public).  When my oldest  was
ready to start school in Little Rock it was a no brainer.  He went  to
private schools from K-12. My second went to both.  Cora is now  in
public school and we couldn't be happier, so far. My bitch with  the
public school system all along is why is the Federal  'gubment'
involved for any reason?

Obama has mouthed lot's of  answers about education and spent lot's of
other folks money on  experiments, but isn't willing to put at risk his
own daughters (article  attached).  I admire he and Michelle for using
their resources to  their children's best advantage.  He obviously
feels the same way I do  about education.

Brad

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The Obamas Walk  Away from Public Schools

Posted By Andrew J. Coulson On November 21,  2008 @ 9:06 pm In
Education and Child Policy | Comments Disabled

A  few months ago, Barack Obama told a gathering of the American
Federation of  Teachers that he opposes private school choice programs,
adding: "We need  to focus on fixing and improving our public schools;
[1] not throwing our  hands up and walking away from them."

It's not clear whether or not the  president-elect will be able to fix
our public schools, and I don't know if  he's thrown up his hands, but
he and his two daughters have just walked  away from the public
schools. Again. When they move from Chicago to D.C.,  Malia and Sasha
Obama will be moving from the prestigious private Lab  School [2] to
the prestigious private Sidwell Friends school — Chelsea  Clinton's old
stomping ground.

Not that there's anything wrong with  that. In fact, it's wonderful
that the Obamas had such a broad range of  public and private school
choices available to them. What's puzzling is  that the president-elect
opposes programs that would bring that same easy  choice of schools
within reach of families who lack his personal wealth. By  his actions,
Senator Obama is demonstrating that he is not willing to wait  for his
own policy prescriptions to "fix and improve" public schools, but  he
expects folks with less ample bank accounts to patiently await  his
hoped-for change.

And while many reports will no doubt trumpet  the $25,000+ tuition at
Sidwell Friends, implying that this is  extravagantly beyond what is
spent in D.C. public schools, they will be  mistaken. As I wrote in the
[3] Washington Post and [4] on this blog, D.C.  public schools also
spent about $25,000 per child in the 2007-08 school  year.

It's not that president-elect Obama is against spending a lot of  money
on other people's kids — he's just against letting their  parents
choose where that money is spent.

Article printed from Cato  @ Liberty: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org

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