McPrince and the Pauper go to School (John McCain's voucher proposal)

[proud2BlibKansan]

McPrince and the Pauper go to School
17 July 2008

So let’s see if I got this right. John McCain, married to a billionaire, advocates taking poor children from the schools in their neighborhoods and sending them to private schools using a voucher system that privatizes our public education. He used vouchers as his gimmick in his speech to a sparsely attended meeting with the NAACP on July 16th.. This would be instead of providing the infrastructure, security and faculty improvements that are needed in order to make the proper level of education available to all children in that “failing school.” So let’s take a kid who has to depend on the school for breakfast and lunch and send him to a private school where his parents might be employed to trim the rose bushes if they’re lucky. In most private schools, even middle class families would be hard pressed to pay the tuition. So we dump this kid into a school where what his parents make in a year is pocket money for their class mates?

That is an unpleasant situation for everyone involved, including the “fortunate” kid who ends up in the rich school his parents could never afford to send him to. Are they going to legislate equal treatment from classmates? Who will this kid hang out with after school? It’s certain his classmates won’t be coming home to his house after school.

It promotes a twisted worldview where the ‘lucky’ get to be princes for a while. The world where suddenly you win the clearing house sweepstakes and all your problems are solved forever. The world where you win on American Idol and suddenly become America’s version of royalty. The world of bread and circuses where social problems are not solved, they are shoved under the carpet while we play the prince and the pauper with our children’s futures.

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The answer to “failing schools” is not shipping the kids to a school somewhere else that has more money. The answer to “failing schools” is to fix what’s broken and turn those schools into successful schools that provide the education to which every child in this country in entitled.

John McCain wants to convince the NAACP and the rest of the American voters that he will make their child into a prince or princess by providing vouchers that will lift them from poverty and deposit them in Beverly Hills. John McCain thinks we’re stupid. He thinks that if he sells the American Idol myth hard enough we will buy into it and sell our country down the drain with a vote for another republican administration. He wants us to believe that he has the winning ticket for the clearing house sweepstakes and when we hand him the presidency he will hand us that check that will transform our lives suddenly to one of prosperity.

more . . . http://www.mytown.ca/nutshell/

[Tutonic]

1. He needs to fire his handlers. The NAACP and other predominantly

Black organizations (Urban League, PUSH, Rainbow Coalition, etc) do not favor vouchers. John McCain should educate himself with their education platforms and try speaking to African Americans more than every twenty years. He was wrong on the King Holiday. He's wrong on vouchers. John McBush is just wrong.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. How true

Wrong on King, wrong on vouchers.