Comments cpthompson has made
It must be bush's fault
Laurel- so you're saying that maybe if we continue doing tomorrow what didn't work yesterday, we should get different results. Throw more money at it, and it will improve. I live in Atlanta and we spend more than $7000 per student on our public schools, and they are some of the worst in the nation. And let me assure you, they didn't become so awful only when bush or reagan came into office. I believe only D.C. spends more than Atlanta per student, and their schools are nothing to be proud of either. We need new ideas, not more of the same blame-it-on-bush garbage from the jaded worldview of a canned ideologue who uses blame as a crutch to avoid having to think through these difficult problems for herself. we have to continue trying to move forward here people.On School choice could be an answer to sprawl posted 4 years, 1 month ago 24 Responses
Unions
The reason most environmentalists don't support school choice is because its an idea from the right, and its opposed by the teacher's unions, which long ago put protecting teachers above educating children. We need to be able to admit when our political opponents come up with a good idea, and not simply reject it because of our financial and historic ties to a certain special interest group. We lose any credibility for our own good ideas when we do that, and its a major cause for the nasty political schism prevailing today.On School choice could be an answer to sprawl posted 4 years, 1 month ago 24 Responses