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Originally posted by 33girl
And if you need to travel too far - I'm sorry, but I don't think that having to transport a 6 year old an hour one way every morning and every night contributes to his learning or his general health, no matter how damn good the school is when he gets there.
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It's purely anecdotal, but I had a 45 minute commute each way every day because the schools in my neck of the woods didn't have programs for gifted/accelerated students. I would have been bored and unchallenged if I'd stayed in those schools, and G*d only knows what my life might've turned out like if I hadn't.
I think in some ways that the fight against vouchers is a middle-class luxury, meaning that middle-class people with access to better public or private education have the option of choice. If you ask families who live in underprivileged areas whether they'd like the chance to send their kids to better, safer schools where they'd get a better education, I'd wager that a majority would jump at the chance.