Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Mar 30, 2011 at 4:53pm
The House voted along party lines today to revive the District of Columbia school vouchers program for low-income students that Democrats let lapse in 2009.
President Obama, who sends his daughters to the private Sidwell Friends school, has voiced his strong opposition to the measure signaling that he has no interest in affording underprivileged families the same choice that his own family enjoys.
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Jul '10
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
Underprivileged families have the same choice as all the others: to do what it takes to earn more money.
Mar '11
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The key to vouchers is that you spend the same money we throw down the rathole of public education for a privatized version which has to compete for that money. Not a perfect system, but maybe it will demonstrate freedom of choice a people who have never seen it work.
Dec '10
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@ Jimmy Carter: It very difficult to make money when the school one went to was crap and the people raising one had no money management skills of their own. You could lose everything you own and be out on the street tomorrow and you still would have a better chance at succeeding in life then most poor kids simply because a) you know whats possible and b) you were taught basic money management principals.
@Diane Ellis: I don't think it has anything to with hating choice. I think its about a lack of respect for people as individuals as oppose to resources of society. Liberals view kids as resources to be used as oppose to individuals to be served. They don't like the idea of a gifted child(or simply a kid who's parents actually are involved in their life) being moved to a different school because then the children in the failing school lose a "role model"/"good influence". To liberals, the needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the one; if they have to sacrifice one child's future to improve the futures of several others then so be it.
Oct '10
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
But, of course, not their own children. Heaven forbid that an Obama kid pay the price that is extracted from the commoners
Jul '10
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
They're not all that big on paying taxes, either. Geithner, Rangel, Kerry, McCaskill; the list goes on and on.
Republicans should be smart enough to capitalize on this - but I suspect there's a gentleman's agreement not to be opening each others' closets.
Feb '11
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Mar '11
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Why should the Obamas be the only family in who live in public housing in Washington, D.C. to get their kids a good education? The Democrats' opposition to school vouchers is a disgrace and Obama's opposition is the height of hypocracy.
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
The teachers' unions own Barack Obama.
May '10
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
All due respect Paul, this is just not true. The president may oppose choice and removing any funds from the government-run school system, but he has shown a willingness to challenge the teachers unions more robustly than any recent president.
Dec '10
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Trace Urdan
All due respect Paul, this is just not true. The president may oppose choice and removing any funds from the government-run school system, but he has shown a willingness to challenge the teachers unions more robustly than any recent president. · Mar 31 at 8:08am
Please explicate
May '10
Re: Proving, Once Again, That Liberals Despise Choice
Foxman
Please explicate · Mar 31 at 11:39am
The Obama administration has been a staunch advocate for performance-based incentives for teachers and for using standardized tests to judge performance. This is anaethma to the teachers unions. One need only peruse the hashtag #edreform on Twitter to see some of the vitriol of the president and his Department of Education. This stems from the fact that Arne Duncan was a superintendent himself and knows whereof he speaks. So while much of the President's education agenda is down-the-line progressive, he is certainly not owned by the teachers' unions.