Reply #16: good for you

[imdjh]

Hmm.. that's an interesting POV for a progressive message board.

If someone doesn't adhere to your idea of doctrine, especially if it's a self-serving doctrine which doesn't have anything to do with liberal or progressive thought, then you accuse them of being a heretic. That's fucked up. You do know that there are more than Baptists and Jesuits running private schools, right? We have hippie schools, and Quaker schools, and for all intents and purposes progressive nonreligious Episcopalian schools, and SDA schools, and private schools for disadvantaged black kids, Hare Krishna school, Scientology school , Spanish school, Chinese school, and pretty much you name it.

And it's not about thinking that shrinking the public schools is a desirable goal, it's about choices, real choices and not the illusion of choices that the public schools currently offer.



Here's another thought - stop trying to run Florida on the cheap. It's not 1950 with a transient, snowbird population anymore. In Nebraska, we pay property tax at twice the rate of Floridians, our sales tax is 1% higher, and we have state income tax. Here's a shocker -- we have great schools.

Your per pupil expenditure for Omaha is $8202, ours is $7861. A whopping 4.3% difference! Supposedly, the high school we're going to next year is great. And if it's not, then what can I do about it? Hope that in ten years the public schools will be better? It will be too late.

I'm thrilled that Nebraska is wonderful, why do you care if Florida has vouchers?