When Rahm's Temper Made a Comeback

[manualman]

One can fairly judge rants by the usage of all caps, as is apparent in the post you linked, and apparently absent in my own. …

That is your rebuttal of my accounting example?? “Hey, he shouted, therefore I win.”
I’m guessing you don’t teach the debate club…

I just showed you the money. Parents are willing to pay extra for private schooling. Many simply can’t quite afford it. Add a LITTLE voucher amount to increase the number of parents who CAN make the same school choice as Rahm and Barack and you will increase the number of parents who will make that decision. The trick is to set the voucher amount just high enough that the increase in private enrollment just barely matches the existing excess capacity in the area private schools.

Do that and the public school system will have MORE money per student with which to educate their remaining students.

I welcome intelligible responses or critiques of my math, but not of my capitalization prediliction.

 

[manualman]

What vouchers would do is to allow tax dollars to go to private schools like the infamous ‘segregation academies’. There are schools in Chicago which teach that Jews began the Persian Gulf War. Now, their curriculum is their business, but I don’t favor tax dollars going for that type of instruction. Others don’t mind at all.

Such is the price of living in a plural society. I don’t like the way my public high school district will refer kids to a doctor for birth control prescriptions without informing the parents, but there’s nothing I can do about it. AND they seize thousands of tax dollars from me every year to pay for it.

At least with vouchers the people can vote with their wallets. And it comes down to that: do we want parents making decisions about raising their kids or government bureacrats. Your argument boils down to “If a few whackos are bad parents, then take away the freedom of all parents.” I say No thanks to that logic.

 

[SamH]

The fact is that there are already high-quality magnet schools and charter schools in Chicago. Vouchers would not change that.

I don’t think the goal is to change that fact so much as it is to add to it.