re: #469 Obdicut

Exactly. So they’re not a solution, except on an incredibly, incredibly limited scale.

I’m glad that you can acknowledge that the GOP’s attacks on science are part of the problem.

I think the minority communities’ attitudes towards school reflect the unfulfilled promises of those schools. It is a whole other conversation, but I think it’s one that would be helped first and foremost by an improvement to those schools themselves.

Also see kirkspencer’s posts about schools raising their prices in the face of vouchers; the free market has that aspect to it as well.

There is no question the GOP is part of the problem now, but their involvement is relatively recent.

The decline of the schools has been decades in the making and the straying from the basics is another component of that failure.

I saw KS’ post and I do agree. Nevertheless, I do believe we ought to give as many kids as we can a chance.

It isn’t as if Harvard Prep is opening their doors. It is the neighborhood private schools that are stepping in. I believe that is why so many parents are comfortable with the idea. They know the schools and they know what they can produce. In my opinion, if a kid and his or her parents wants to be involved and get their kid educated, lets make the effort to help, until we can fix the public schools.

As you noted earlier, there is no single answer.