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Repeat After Me: School choice advocates are saints

January 17, 2012 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 06:30 AM

So the school choice conference wraps up today. I unfortunately don’t have any more scoops for you, so I thought I would just say a few words about how nice the people are at this conference. These are people who do what they do because they care about kids and want to help them. You might think that people who promote school choice are mistaken and that their policies will in fact hurt kids, whatever, but there is just no way that they are selfish, ruthless privatizers out to enrich themselves on the backs of children. Au contraire - many (most?) of them have chosen career paths that ensure they earn a modest living but which allow them to try to help kids - especially poor kids.

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The Wall Street types behind the charters movement are too busy to attend. Did you see Bill Gates or Eli Broad or the Walton Family there? They simply finance the choice movement.

I’m sure the ones who actually show up are nice people.

Posted by Doug on 01/17 at 10:23 AM

kudos to all of them, and also to SQE for all of your tireless work for the children <3

Posted by bev on 01/17 at 04:23 PM

School choice advocates ARE saints!

Posted by Henry on 01/18 at 11:48 AM

If parents are as pleased with the status quo as some here claim and the results are so good there’s little to be feared from offering some minor assistance to those wanting an alternative, right?  Offering a voucher of,  say,  $2,000 would still oblige parents to contribute a big chunk of money; hardly likely if the “free” public system is doing a good job.  If the PS is as good as it claims it is there’s nothing to fear…

I suspect the fear of competition speaks to the reality.

Posted by john l on 01/18 at 03:40 PM

Your problem is not with me but with the Ontario electorate. We did the polling at OSSTF, 15% supported John Tory’s plan. We showed it to the Liberals and the NDP and they said “yes this confirms our own polling. Why is John doing this? He seems to be walking right into the propeller blades. The election confirmed the total rejection of public money for private schools. The riding JT hoped to win had a huge Jewish population in the north and a Muslim population in the south yet they voted for Kathleen Wynne.

You need to face reality, the idea is very unpopular.

Posted by Doug on 01/19 at 07:50 AM

So there’s absolutely no need to campaign so loudly against the idea, right?  Clearly if there’s such strong public disapproval already there’s no need for the unions to spend resources to battle the possibility.

Make up your minds, kids.

Posted by John L on 01/19 at 02:00 PM

They don’t. They campaign heavily against JT for raising the issue but they believe the concept is “damaged goods”. You can never tell when someone will try again.

Posted by Doug on 01/19 at 02:26 PM
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