Clinton and vouchers

Last week we commented a bit about a recent speech by Hillary Clinton. Spunky, at SpunkyHomeSchool, had found a video of Hillary trying to scare people about the dangers of having vouchers. Hillary claims someone might try to use vouchers to fund a school which promoted white supremacist attitudes, or schools which trained children to be terrorists.

Matthew Ladner, of the Goldwater Institute, writes in rebuttal that there are nine publicly funded voucher systems in six states right now. There have been a variety of different types of schools, but no one has started up a white supremacist school or other such institutions.

We need to be cautious, but we can’t live in fear of what might happen. I think Matthew Ladner effectively destroys Hillary's scare tactics. He also points out there is a certain amount of hypocrisy. The Clintons didn't trust the public schools for sent their daughter to a private school.

One of the main thoughts behind vouchers is that parents are at least partially responsible for the education of their children, and can be trusted to make good decisions. Most opponents seem to feel, or at least claim, that the government does a better job. As a group, children who have been homeschooled do much, much better than children who have gone through public schools. Clearly the government is doing a poor job.

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