Choice?

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Christina links to a small town newspaper op-ed which asserts, “Replacing public education with private schools would allow parents a choice.”

Choice? Parents have a choice. They can choose to send their schools to taxpayer-funded public schools, or they can choose to send them to any of a number of private school options, secular and religious. Plenty of private schools, religious and secular, would never think to ask for state money–because they know it comes with strings.

Contrary to the article, church/state separation isn’t a liberal idea. It’s an old, conservative idea. It protects both the church and the state. And it’s best for schools, as Catholic bishop Thomas J. Curry agrees.

And the article’s suggestion that we turn schools over to corporations? They’d do to education what they did to food.

McSchool, anyone?

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