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Vouchers Won't Benefit Healthy Private Schools
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Once we had a neighbor who insisted that she had a right to walk
her dog on the local public school playground, letting her dog foul
the grass on which my kids and others played. Confronted with her
illegal dog-walking, she huffed: Well, I send my kids to private
schools, so I'm entitled to get something from the public school in
return for all the taxes that I pay.
The logic, of course, is as crippled as the "choice" argument
for giving parents publicly funded vouchers to send thei...
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