RE: clarifications (part 1)

["Dale Courtney" <dmcourtn@moscow.com>]

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All,

 

As a point of clarification: that comment in the last paragraph was from James Taranto in today's WSJ (http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002241) and was not original with me -- though I fully agree with it.

 

I want to give credit where credit is due.

 

Dale Courtney

Moscow, Idaho

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Courtney [mailto:dmcourtn@moscow.com]
Sent: Monday, 09 September, 2002 13:01
To: Vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: RE: clarifications (part 1)

John Davis wrote:

> I am NOT against private schools--in fact, my children
> attended one a few
> years back (for 2 years), and we placed them (happily) back
> into the public
> schools for a variety of reasons.  In addition, I do believe
> that private
> schools (religeous affiliation included) can and do serve
> well as part of
> our overall educational endeavors. . . in conjunction with
> public schools. 
> What I will NOT accept is the assertions by a very limited
> number of folks
> regarding the elimination of public schools.  Those who maintain THAT
> position will just result in a focus on my part to (in a
> bohemian fashion, I
> suppose) fall back to the 'eye for an eye' response.

In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, April Falcon Doss explains why she chose to send her daughter to a private school:

"For a card-carrying liberal, I was surprisingly unapologetic about our decision. Why should I sacrifice our daughter's future to an abstract principle? I wasn't up to battling the school system about class size, curriculum and extracurricular activities. And by the time any changes could be made, our daughter would have already missed out on a vibrant education."

Here in a nutshell is the definition of an American liberal: one who is willing to sacrifice the future of other people's children to an abstract principle.

See: 'My Public Spirit Stops at My Daughter' (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48640-2002Sep6.html)

Dale Courtney,
Moscow, Idaho
Free to be me, free to be you (as long as you agree with me...)