Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-30, Roberto C. Sanchez penned: > >>What about if you are in the military and get stationed in Arkansas? >>Then what? Or somewhere with an insanely high cost of living? The >>point is that if all education was private, you could live where you >>want send your kids to school where you want and it wouldn't matter >>that you weren't in the "right district." > > > I find it interesting that you're all about freedom of choice and > personal responsibility, but the above quote doesn't seem to recognize > that joining the military is a choice, as is having children while in > the military. > > Anyway, I think your point here is a red herring. If education is > entirely privatized, schools will follow the money, and poor areas > won't have the pull for really great education. The military, by the > way, doesn't pay its troops all that well. So, poor areas don't have things like restaurants and retail establishments? The point is, that even poor will need education. Here is another concept: you value you what you have to pay for. I know that I am more appreciative of the things which I have had to earn through hard work than of those which were freebies. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature