I've been trying to articulate what bothered me exactly about what Bush said in the SOTU speech about the state of education in this country, and then I read what the Weekend Pundit had to say on the subject and it hit me: The man has TOTALLY abandoned vouchers!
The President talked up boosting education. That's great. It's something we need to do. But if it means making school class sizes even smaller, he's barking up the wrong tree. We've already reached the point of diminishing returns in regards to class size. What we really need to do is break the stranglehold the education lobby has on our children's education, the same lobby that says “We need even more money in order to adequately educate your kids.” Better that we find more efficient ways to spend our education dollars, like school vouchers.
Hang on a sec...Didn't I vote for the guy--not once, but TWICE--because he supported giving Americans a real choice in education? Didn't I think he really truly cared about this issue? How did I miss this?
Well, at least I now live in a city with so many "choices" in public education (tons of magnet schools and charter schools) that I can delude myself into feeling I'm not stuck choosing between the school I'm zoned for and private school.
But still...This problem isn't going away, and if the Dems do regain power in the Congress, we can consider the issue dead and buried probably for good.
Posted by insomnomaniac at February 4, 2006 9:58 PM | TrackBack