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I really do not understand what fantasy world free-market advocates live in.

Perhaps its because you don’t understand cause and effect like they do. Federal programs are typically found to perpetuate the problems they were ostensibly designed to repair. Welfare creates generational welfare dependency, for example.

Speaking of convoluted logic, how are you on making nothing a priority — All No Children Left Behind — by making everything a priority?

Government school has little to do anymore with sound education. Naturally, by this time it has everything to do with evading funding loss. It does this by bowing to what is commonly referred to as a mob. It is therefore adrift at the whim of any current majority so it tries any number of harebrained programs and values and gets the inevitable results we see all around us.

Don’t you find it interesting that by claiming to address society’s most vulnerable, most under-privileged, and most helpless, that government school perpetually leaves society’s most vulnerable, most under-privileged, and most helpless down? You pointed that out, you know.

Social leveling hasn’t exactly produced the claimed result. What it’s done is perpetuate the problem.

The excellence choice virtually guarantees? Not so much so. But that’s off limits. As would be testing vouchers. Because we’re really helping poverty-stricken kids out of poverty, I guess.

Tell me, if education cannot be accomplished in the free market (to say nothing at the moment about any number of arguable violations of constitutional principle collectivizing it represents) what other mistakes has the most free and prosperous country in history gotten wrong in the last 200+ years? Heaven forbids you stop at education.

We can’t prove the theory of government schooling by the results. We mayn’t test voucher programs. Everybody is owed the same low-end opportunity. We’re envious of those with choice. And we have no faith in free markets.

Not a convincing sales pitch, Dan S.