Unanswered Questions...

• If Republicans get their way - Public schools are no longer and FOR-PROFIT Charter schools take their place, what happens to the percentage of my tax dollars that goes towards Public Education?  Do my property taxes get reduced?
• If my property taxes DO NOT get reduced, then will I get a breakout of how my property taxes are being divvied up?  My understanding is that most of my property tax was to support the public education system, but if that goes away...
• One of the mandates we have operated under is FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION for all.  If this country moves to a Voucher system - doesn't that fly in the face of Free Public Education?  Seems to me it turns into a system of if you can afford it, then you can have an education.  Kind of like what the University System was before Pell Grants and Stafford Loans.  Only the rich will be able to afford an education.
• If only the rich will be able to afford an education, does this not perpetuate on a more in-your-face way, the class system that is alive and well in the country but that  no one is willing to acknowledge.  You know, that big PINK GORILLA in the middle of the room.
• Let me play Devil's advocate here - There are socialist programs at work here in the United States that have been working and working well for decades.  Dare I say that many of the Republican party benefitted from at least one of these socialist programs.  It's called Public Education.  So why are they using the word as such a pejorative term?  I know the answer, it's a rhetorical question that needs to be thrown back in their face.

Kevin Drum writes: "Children of college graduates score about one standard deviation above the mean by the time they're three, and that never changes. Children of mothers with less than a high school education score about half a standard deviation below the mean by the time they're three, and that never changes either. Roughly speaking, nothing we do after age three has much effect... Intensive, early interventions, by contrast, genuinely seem to work. They aren't cheap, and they aren't easy. And they don't necessarily boost IQ scores or get kids into Harvard. But they produce children who learn better, develop critical life skills, have fewer problems in childhood and adolescence, commit fewer crimes, earn more money, and just generally live happier, stabler, more productive lives."