High resistance to school vouchers
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-le-friday15.6jun15,1,660234.story?coll=la-news-a_section
June 15, 2007
Re "What money can't buy," Column One, June 12
All James Leininger has been able to do with his $100-million investment to
transform Texas is help elect the governor, lieutenant governor and House
speaker, put Republicans in charge of the Legislature and the state Board
of Education and allow business-friendly judges to take over the Texas
Supreme Court. But he has failed to get a school voucher program. How
reassuring it is to know that money can't buy everything in politics.
JAMES FREED
Santa Monica
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I was fascinated by the juxtaposition of Jonah Goldberg's June 12 Op-Ed
column, "Do away with public schools," and the Column One on Leininger's
so-far failed attempts to get the Texas Legislature to pass a voucher
program. Goldberg asks: "What would be so terrible about government
mandating that every kid has to go to school, and providing subsidies and
oversight when necessary, but then getting out of the way?" The answer is
clear when Leininger visits one academy that recipients of his scholarships
attend and hears a student in science class, when asked the age of the
Earth, respond: 6,000 years. The teacher nodded.
No one questions the right of private religious schools to teach whatever
they want, but expecting the public to support the subversion of scientific
knowledge is only one of the reasons why vouchers continue to be rejected
by the majority in this country.
DAN SHEPARD
Westminster
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