20 Aug 2005 - 00:32

Wall Street Journal online poll

Wall Street Journal NCLB poll

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thanks, KTM, for finding this very interesting thread.
i don't usually look at th' WSG.
why are you not surprised?

--following up on some other thread somewhere ...
Doug.Sundset recently posted a number
of cogent reasons for supporting "vouchers".

forgive me for being churlish here, but i think
maybe he's missed my point (if any ...
i'll admit it was very likely my fault ...)
: how come socialism is a good idea for "education"
if it's so clearly wrong for, oh, public health
or even the overall economic well-being
of our worst-off? how come, in other words,
schools get funded as if they were some
untouchable so-called "defense" application like the occupation of iraq or the "war on drugs"?

(i mean, why not have a national health policy?)

or, though i say it right here in the USA,
why not have a government-mandated minimum income
("the dole")? -- because "we" can't afford it?
the walton family alone could probably afford it
and they're nothing like the only rich
(& don't the rich owe more to a system
that's obviously served them so very well?)!

what is it about "education" that makes it rank
with ("defense") programs for pushing people around?
could it (just hypothetically, mind you) be !?!
that public schools are mostly just
minimum security prisons? -- and,just maybe,
mightn't these frog-and-mouse battles (like NCLB)
be just another aspect of "the spectacle"
-- designed to distract ordinary citizens
(you and me -- "pain in the ass innocent bystanders")
from seeing the big picture?

ok. shouting at the walls, i imagine.
watching my beloved USA flail around
like some crazy virgin parkinglot fratboy
looking for a beatdown at 3 am
from some random stranger just in case
his redepmtion happens to lie there
is, let me be perfectly frank here, discouraging.

and yes, i do quite realize
that this unspeakable evil
is not to be blamed on members
(or anonymous posters!)
of kitchen table math.
go in peace.
v.
http://vlorbik.com

-- KtmGuest - 20 Aug 2005