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Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real

November 9, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Laura McKenna
patagonianplato
2007-11-09 02:00:56

Dear Professor McKenna,

I have been to Ed Grad School and have looked into this issue with great interest. Your chief argument against vouchers seems to be that they won’t work, because they won’t work. Just because you think its “hard” doesn’t mean it won’t work. Vouchers do work, time after time.

I have debated with many persons about this issue. Usually they turn out to be shills for either one of the two large teacher’s unions and they almost always oppose any kind of reform regardless of what it is.

Al Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, once said,

“I will begin to care about the quality of children’s education in this country when they start paying union dues.”