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I think this is just all the excuse that administrators need to give up on public education in minority neighborhoods altogether.
On the one hand, as someone whose parent scraped together the money SOMEHOW to send me to private school all my life, I gotta say that this whole voucher deal would have helped a GREAT deal.
But on the other, I just think it's an excuse for politicians not to put funding into public schools.
There are a lot of fine private and parochial institutions out there, but they can't take ALL the students. What happens to the ones who don't have the skills to be admitted? Aren't they the ones who need the help most? Aren't they the ones who receive even less monetary aid because of this policy?
I think this ruling is just attempting to balance the scales in terms of religious ties to the state- we can't say the pledge in public schools, or pray (not that I want that, but that's besides the point) but we DO have the publicly funded ability to send kids to schools where they can.
I just don't foresee this policy having a positive effect for the majority of kids who will be operating under it.
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