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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd August 2011, 11:26pm)
NBC News â—¦ Education Nation
GUEST BLOG â—¦ The Case for School Vouchers â—¦ Patrick M. Byrne â—¦ 23 Aug 23, 2011
And now … I can't believe it's not a message from our sponsor … is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the legacy foundation of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman and his wife Rose. He is also Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com.
(He is also friends with Judd "Wordbomb" Bagley.)
Again, since the government handles most of its programs via some type of voucher or other, from college ed for veterans, to medicare, to EBT/food stamps, to paying for housing on social security, why is it that the gov must be directly involved in propagandizing young minds?
Somebody's terribly afraid that if families can take their voucher credit, pick up, and go to a better school next door, that teachers will actually be accountable for performance, and accountable to the students and their parents. Bad teachers and schools will find themselves with empty classrooms, just like any other service. Scary thought.
Yeah, let's continue to just have the government pay teachers directly, bypassing parents except as they can whine on the local school board, and let the individual students and parents have no choice, unless they want to pay extra. Or vote with their feet to get the hell out of a bad district. GREAT IDEA. (IMG:
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