Conservatives (particularly the right-winged Chrisitan Coalition) are pushing for school vouchers.  These vouchers would allow parents (especially the poor) to send their children to private school.  They call it school choice.

What's the catch?  The tax money that normally goes into public school districts (regardless) would be siphoned into private schools.  Therefore, less money for public schools, more for privates.

The conservatives are using deceitful tactics; for example, using poor inner city school districts as a means to justify the inadequacies and failures of the public school systems.  They're targeting the poor and minority--those likely dissatisfied with the education system. They're also giving these poor people the false impression that private education can do a better job teaching their disadvantaged children. 

I say, from my own personal experience of attending one...private schools are NOT the solution! Not ALL private schools are capable of delivering proper education that our youth needs for the 21st century.  They will teach your children whatever THEY may feel is right with them without any accountability. The one high school I attended gradated students who didn't even know who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was.  When the January holiday came around, they couldn't understand why they recieved a day off; they didn't care because they were glad to have a day to relax at home.

I understand some schools are not providing such a good learning environment.  There is a lot of corruption that goes on. America should work together to improve crumbling school systems, rather than abandoning them. 

However, what I do notice is those who support school vouchers never speaks about how they ended school desegration programs (known as busing) which DID give some black children living in poor neighborhoods the opportunity to attend schools in the suburbs.  Why couldn't they have modified that concept and say, "hey, school choice...feel free to attend any school district within the county area" or  "if your area isn't performing to your expectation, why not go to one that is?"

They're not going to do that.  As soon as these private schools start filling up with these poor kids, the conservatives will yank their children away from private schools and put them into public schools.  Then they'll have the go ahead to fill these kids head with more "eurocentric" views (lies) as they become richer and richer. In the mean time, poor public schools will eventually close their doors due to lack of funding.  Do you know what that means?  No free lunches or other social programs for poor kids.

It's all a trick, folks.  It's another conservative plan to privatize everything, thus makng the rich become richer as the poor become poorer. Some areas are  experimenting with vouchers and already seeing corruption.

Democracy and freedom, they call it. I guess this is their way of shoving this broken  capitalist system down the throats of foreign countries.  But what about their right to develop their own economic system? Why must everyone conform to these "eurocentric" standards just to have food in their bellies?

American can't solve it's own problem of poverty.  Who are we to go into poor starving countries telling them what to do?

I don't like where this is heading.  Given the track record of these "eurocentric" minded people...<<shaking my head>>..I...just can't trust them.  It was them who caused the suffering and death of so many people around the world.  And now they're calling it a "friendly gesture of peace".  Yeah right.  It's another ploy to exploit the people and to protect their own interest.