remember your roots
Margaret Spellings, I am quickly losing faith in your ass.
School vouchers?
As a recipient of public education, I resent your implications, missy. You're basically saying that public education is unsalvageable and hopeless, and I couldn't disagree with you more.
As an employee of a public education institution, particularly one who is involved in admissions, I am cranky because you're making my job harder. When my school puts forth a clear list of classes that need to be taken in high school, a uniform dictation of requirements that are designed to make all students, regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic status, et al, just a little more in pace with each other, that is so college admissions can be a little more equitable when Student A's family goes to sleep on hundred-dollar bills and Student B's family lives six to a one-bedroom apartment, for instance. I can hear you whining at me already, that if the school vouchers go through then Student B can go to a good school like Moneybags Student A, but that doesn't solve the complete deregulation of curriculum-- if sent to private school, they can teach any damn thing, like Intelligent Design. OH, Lawd.
All students are beautiful and unique snowflakes, but there has to be something to bridge the gap, and that is curriculum. ALSO, public education came about in this country to offer the poor an opportunity to improve themselves, where education used to be a hallmark of the rich. I am rather peeved that you're trying to eradicate one of the last bastions of democracy in this country, the fruits of which you enjoy now as a woman, where not so long ago we weren't allowed to go to school because we had to clean the house and make babies.