From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 16:46:01 MDT
Regarding the claim that Samantha made about the tax
money for public schooling not being sufficient to pay
for private schooling:
This is simply wrong. This particular position came
up frequently in the recent attempt to put thru a
voucher initiative. Altho there are private schools
that charge high tuitions - and virtually guarantee
acceptance to an ivy-league university, even here in
high-priced Orange County there are plenty of private
schools that charge tuitions much less than the measly
$5,000 per year that the public schools get from
taxes.
The voucher opponents - who illegally used school
facilities and resources paid for with tax money to
put out reams of propaganda that the kids were told to
take home - after this was pretty well established,
then jumped to the argument that since there were not
enough private school facilities available to deal
with the expected surge in demand if the initiative
passed, that private school tuitions would take a
sudden huge jump, forcing many existing private
schoolers to move back to the public schools.
I discovered, however, that in the S. L.A. black
community, for example, where I had been providing
home-schooling families with computers, that a huge
grass-roots effort had been going on behind the
scenes, with parents joining together and leasing
facilities from churches, as one example, and locating
retired teachers willing to work, in order to create
their own parent-owned schools.
Most of the black community was convinced that the
voucher initiative would pass, and they were the
strongest supporters, which caused no end of
embarrasment to the local "progressives," especially
at KPFK, the local Pacifica station (understandable,
as their paradigm base of support appears to be a
white, female public school teacher). They - the
black parents - were devastated when all their plans
and work came to naught, as the proposition was
defeated by the affluent white yuppies of Santa Monica
and Irvine, to name prominent examples, who had
succumbed to scare propaganda put out by the teachers.
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