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criminate against anyone for any reason. Most of these, so called, schools have no standards of learning or any other kind of accountability. Columbine really teaches us what happens when there is no accountability. Vouchers are nothing but a recipe for big trouble.
The first year over $150 million would go to religious schools. Requiring reasonable educational standards of learning would likely violate the separation of church and state, so we will have no say in how our tax dollars are spent. All the followers of under funded doomsday cults and money-grubbing gurus will be grateful for your generosity and gullibility.
The disruptive students Mr. Oyster fears are most often those children whose special needs are not receiving the attention they require. In a small school system the number of students with special needs, whether remedial or accelerated, is small and a staff with highly specialized skills is required. Only smaller class sizes and more competitive pay for teachers will remedy the situation.
The almost two hundred million dollars that would be given away yearly in vouchers, if applied to the public schools, would go a long way toward building academic excellence, creative expression, and the safe educational environment Mr. Oyster wants for his children.
Bill Tieckelmann
Washington
I found Jim Oyster’s letter (2-16-00) deeply offensive, invoking his childs death in such a way.
What kind of talk is this? Sacrificed? On the altar of what? And that crude and garbled analogy about Federal Express. Slow down Mr. Oyster. You’re making some pretty big leaps here.
Bob Etchells
Washington
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