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April 26, 2007
The Republican Party is not the party of Morality
Or, perhaps they mean something different by it...
At any rate, since Mr. Bennett had been Secretary of Education I asked him to support the bill in the crucial stage when we needed Republican allies. He told me he would not help, because he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers,charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education.
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Now, no matter what you think of public schools, to deliberately undermine them-- to, with malice aforethought, shortchange the students in them-- for a political agenda is immoral. And, of course, if public schools fail after such ideology comes to the fore, it proves not that public schools are bad, but that when they are deprived of support, they fall down...
The fact that such ideologies are put into practice whenever Republicans take office is why I cannot, in good conscience, vote Republican...
Posted by Andrew at April 26, 2007 12:43 AM