Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>
> > A public school system CAN be economically efficient if it is subject to
> > the same competetive pressures of the free market, and if all of the
> > people are given their freedom to choose (why is it left wingers seem to
> > think we should have freedom of choice in some things, but not in
> > others?).
>
> (Assuming I am understanding what you meant by left wingers and freedom of
> choice) Mike, do you understand the difference between, say, a local police
> department and a local branch of the KKK? A police sergeant may belong to
> the KKK group (there's the freedom of choice), but he cannot represent the
> police department while speaking for the KKK group (i.e., he cannot wear his
> police uniform, thereby giving the impression that the police department
> supports the KKK, although the police sergeant, as an individual, can be a
> member).
Once again, the whiny liberal descends into thinly disguised
implications of racism...
>
> A democracy may support the right of groups like the KKK to exist, but
> local, state and federal governments cannot ask taxpayers to support
> parochialism of the kind the KKK represents.
That is correct. But the state cannot prohibit people from spending
THEIR OWN DAMN MONEY however they see fit, on KKK rallies or KKK
schools, ComIntern rallies or Red Youth Reeducation Kamps.
>
> In the same vein, private schools may exist in a host of flavors
> (specializing in upper-middle class college prep, or employ a creationist
> curriculum, or have a foreign language emphasis, or be exclusive for a
> myriad reasons), but governments cannot ask taxpayers to support
> parochialism, so public schools are necessarily set at "neutral," and open
> to all citizens (and even non-citizens) of the United States.
That is correct. However, forcing people to pay for things they do not
believe in is fascism.
The problem with your argument is that by your implications, you
automajically paint all private schools as nests of fascism and racists,
another thinly disguised left wing debating tactic...
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