Re: Defending public education

["joseph p. bottini" <jpbottini@adelphia.net>]

simple
private school don't take every one; or keep everyone.
publ;ic schools do.
read the story about the blueberries in the ice cream.
if you don't know of it, ask asdn I will send it to you.
joe bo
jpbottini@adelphia.net 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Diane Aoki
Date: 09/07/06 11:53:26
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: [arn-l] Defending public education
 
I had a nice long conversation with a teacher who teaches at a Waldorf
school. I thought I did a good job informing her of the complexities of NCLB
and its intent to destroy public education. She is very liberal, so very
receptive to what I had to say. When it came down to answering WHY would
they want to do this, and I gave the answer - vouchers, there was this
moment of silence and she may have possibly been pondering, hey, then this
is a good thing for us in private schools. We had to go back to what we were
doing before the conversation, but it got me thinking that I need to be
articulate about defending public education in general. This may be a simple
question for most of you, but I was hoping you can help me get my speaking
juices flowing about why we NEED to have public education, (i.e., why not
vouchers?) why everyone, even those without school-age children in the
public schools, needs it.
 
Hoping to get a response,
Diane