Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[David Horn]

(11-17-2018, 04:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-16-2018, 05:18 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(11-14-2018, 01:48 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What's the point of bringing up a path that ISN'T legally available to us now? Food for thought?  I think most people understand that government services aren't free. The only folks who don't seem to understand that services aren't free are those who seem more likely to vote Democratic. Guess what, public education costs money and if the results tend to suck or don't meet our expectations then private education may become the preferred option for our half of the country.

Just like healthcare, education costs money, and private schooling is only less expensive if it's no inclusive.  Yes, you can send your bright, well behaved mainstream children to schools that specialize in bright, well behaved and mainstream, but all children need an education, or they become future problems that are only solved by prison -- a much more expensive "management" alternative. 

Betsy DeVos thinks all children should be schooled privately.  Betsy DeVos is a Billionaire.  Go figure. 

Well, your refusal to even consider it pretty much guarantees that poor kids remain trapped in shitty public schools with shitty learning environments and probably end in prison. Oh well, I can't do much to help them out of their situation other than vote Republican at this point. Yes, she's a billionaire who wasn't born poor in a shitty part of Chicago or LA where her parents only choice was to send her to shitty public school because there was no other options available that they could afford.

My own grandchildren attend private school because the public schools in their community are sub-par.  By taxing and spending too little, communities and entire states make that inevitable.  It wasn't always that way.  My public school education in a rusty blue-collar upstate NY city produced world class musicians and debaters -- not something one associates with the lower middle class.  Again, it was the direct result of local and state citizens being willing to dig-in and pay for quality.  In what universe will today's Republicans do that or anything equivalent?  DeVos only cares about transferring tax money to private charter schools, no matter how shitty and overpriced.  I don't see a solution there.