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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Help me understand the logic
	Date:	3/28/2009 11:45:01 PM

If parents can't take their children out of government schools exactly what is the mechanism for them to insist on a decent education?

Also, why should the government be able to dictate where I send my children to school? You are our resident Constitutional scholar, tell me where in the Constitution, the Bill or Rights or the Federalist Papers the government is granted the right to dictate that our children can't attend the school of their choice?

And lets be realistic here, school choice has always been a fundamental right even with the choice only being government schools. How is that you ask? Well, I see that in my own county in Georgia where parents specifically move into districts where they want their children to attend a certain school. Real estate agents advertise, "Walton High School" or "Timber Ridge Elementary" to entice people and it actually increases home values. That my friend is school choice.

It isn't insisting on improvements to existing schools, it is flight to good school systems. That is the dirty little secret to the much advertised "white flight" from inner city housing and school systems. In reality it was income flight regardless of the race. Middle and upper middle class blacks and hispanics fled to the suburbs right along with their white brethren in income brackets that could afford it. Unfortunately there were fewer of them in the income brackets that could afford the flight but when they could they did as quickly as they could. Believe me, they are my neighbors and friends and they didn't try to cahnge a corrupt system run by the government, they got the he!! out because they knew they coundn't change things and they could afford something better for their children.

Would you also propose that no one can move out of a poorly run district was well? And if not, explain to me why flight to a private school is any different than flight to a better run government school district?