> The labor "leaders," "progressive" democrats and the ACLU crowd are
> all horrified at the thought that Black and Hispanic parents having
> vouchers because they might choose the "wrong" school, and --horror
> of horrors-- even a religious school. "Separation of church and
> state," say these hypocrites, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF WHOM sends their
> kids to an inner city school, all of whom send their kids to PRIVATE
> schools, safe in the knowledge that economic barriers will keep their
> children from being contaminated by ghetto kids.
Well, I'm not any kind of labor leader, and I can't call myself a Democrat anymore, not even a "progressive" one, not after AFDC and Kosovo, but I am a dues-paying card-carrying ACLU member, so I guess it's me whom Mr. Perez is addressing as "hypocrite.".
My older daughter attends a "magnet school" in Tampa which, I think, qualifies as an "inner-city" school. I went to Florida public schools thirty years ago, and they were a bad joke. But in her "magnet school," the curriculum is astoundingly rigorous; she's getting a education I would never have dreamt you could get from a Florida public school. Her school, Tampa Bay Tech, is the best American public high school I've ever seen or heard of in my entire life, even though that fraud Jeb! Bush and his State Department of Education gave it a "C" rating. (The absurd school-grading system is part of Jeb!s scheme to undermine the Florida public school system with his vouchers.)
I have two younger children, and I was hoping that when they get old enough, they too would enjoy the first-rate public school programs my older daughter currently participates in, but thanks to Jeb! and his vouchers scheme, I suppose that's not going to happen. Divide and conquer, the rich bastards win again.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net