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Letter: Public schools accept failure

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001 | 11:08 a.m.

Since choice and liberty are at its core, a voucher school with larger class sizes, no textbooks, technology or support services would have to be delivering an incredible high level of educational results in order to stay in business, unlike the coercive government-run schools where technology very often means improved metal detectors and support services mean more campus police.

As for accountability, Kennedy is kidding, right? Only in the monopolistic upside-down world of K-12 public education does failure mean more money. The greater the failure, the more resources you receive. Some accountability.

For parents under a voucher system, if the school you have chosen fails to keep its promises and doesn't deliver the education you want for your child you can walk away from it and go somewhere else -- even back to the public school system if you want to. It's your choice.

That's a concept alien to the monopolists of the education establishment and lost on the apologists for the establishment, such as Kennedy, and that's too bad for the kids.

Vouchers now.

KNIGHT ALLEN

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