A Liberal In The Midst

I had intended for today’s post to be some rant on the fakeness of the 112th Congress’ reading of the Constitution, however; I received a tweet late last night about Boehner’s support for school choice. My first thought was we have money for school vouchers but not healthcare? I was mystified. Publicly funding private schools mystifies me. School choice in my view is another way to say school vouchers. When a school accepts public funds it ceases to be private in my view. You,, in essence will have a public school that supports only one dynamic of the life that exists within a multicultural nation. If parents wish to home school or private school their children, they have the right to do so. They do not have the right to use public funds to do so. Federal educational funds should be used to fund in full public schools that are open to the reality of America being a multicultural society of varying beliefs. We need every dollar available to be placed into our public school sys...