I’m not opposed to it. I think a voucher program will get us closer to it than our current public-teachers-union-dominated system that has utterly failed students in so many places.
Cite?
And you propose we should fix this leaky boat by poking holes in the bottom to let the water out?
It’s like saying that Obama has not eliminated crime, so it would be a sensible idea for Trump to put someone in charge who proposes getting rid of the police, and simply praying for things to get better.
I don’t imagine that Donald “Two Corinthians” Trump does a lot of praying. It’s more like getting rid of the police, knowing that things will get worse, and considering that to be a feature.
I think of it more like transferring people over to the nearby speedboat that doesn’t have a leaky hull.
The trouble is that the vessel you’re trying to rescue the passengers from is a large national vessel that is transporting most of the nation’s schoolchildren, and those fine speedboats are unknown random quantities, many of which are Somalian pirates, and moreover, the Somalian pirates who torpedoed the ship in the first place. So if it’s actually feasible to repair the main national vessel, as most other major democracies seem capable of doing, then that would seem to be a good plan.
The Evil Influence of Teacher’s Unions is an article of faith for the Orthodox Republican. I’m guessing that’s the reason you needed to include it.
My province of Ontario has quite a powerful teachers’ union – I am not one of them, though I envy their pension plan …
Ontario Teachers’ is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors having reported $171.4 billion in net assets on December 31, 2015. It has an excellent track record for investment performance with an average annual return of 10.3% since inception.
… yet despite the evil influence of unions, we have the following: Ontario school system ranks among best in world, report says.
So it seems that your broad-brush prejudging and attempt to blame “teacher’s unions” for everything leads to some quite erroneous conclusions.
And, just like universal health care, a quality public school system is not really all that expensive when everyone participates.
(It’s not that private schools don’t exist here, it’s just that they’re a rather exclusive and expensive affair – basically, exotic junior millionaires’ clubs. They’re not really relevant in the overall public education dialog.)
and then hiring a crony company to do Security only for rich folks.
…while giving a $5 voucher to everyone else, so they can purchase a cheapie security chain for their front door…
But you can only buy that from some Trump crony owned company. And it’s required.
Perhaps Carson was given HUD so he could oversee the construction of pyramids in urban areas to store grain for the cities.
Looks like this isn’t even true:
Do those Catholic schools currently accept non-Catholic students? Do they require all students, or those who are Catholic, to attend religious acts?
Hey, give Carson some slack. He pulled a knife on a guy and gets pissed off if you tell him it isn’t true. Plus he probably listened to Nat King Cole. And he’d take offense at use of the word “niggardly”. If that doesn’t qualify him as urban, what does?
Oh joy, another military dude. We’ve gone from civilian control of the military to military control of everything.
I don’t know if I’d call 2 out of 9 (named so far) Cabinet positions “military control of everything”. The man at the top, Trump, is a civilian’s civilian.