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in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 4/3/05 2:00 AM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 4/1/05 11:12 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

If I may, for many a person with a disability, "handicapped" is like the
n-word to many a person with black skin. I realize no offense likely
intended frtzw906 :-)

I agree. I see his statement as being poorly thought out and articulated,
not calculatedly insulting.

Now to your point, that is exactly what will happen. It's so obvious...poor
people and/or those more difficult to work with will be left behind. What
is
the incentive of a profit-driven school to serve them? None.

The incentive is exactly the same as it is for any student: money.

So long as poor children are given a stipend by the government (collected
from society as a whole through taxation) to provide for schooling, they
will be just exactly as welcome as any other student.

Brilliant. And the motivation for rich people and people who don't have
children with disabilities to contribute to this is....?

The tax man comes and takes away their Benz, of course. I've said many times
that taxation for public education of the needy is appropriate.

Heehee. Who do you think decides what the tax man taxes? It ain't poor
people that get presidents elected. You may think taxation for public
education of the needy is appropriate, but once public education becomes
only for the poor, nobody else will want to pay for it, and the politicians
who want to get elected will get the message.

Yes, some students will be able to afford better schooling, but so what? The
intent is to provide an adequate education, not a perfect education, for all
children. Some children will excel, some will be average, and some will
fail. All will have a reasonable and fair opportunity to get a basic
education. No more ought to be expected by anyone.

I believe that all children should have equality of opportunity through
equal access to education to the greatest extent possible.

So, you believe that children who have the means to get a better education
than the public system provides should be denied that opportunity because
for them to seize that opportunity is discriminatory against poorer
children?

I think the public school system should get the resources and management it
needs to be good enough for anyone.

I realize this isn't going to happen. All that can be done is to advocate
for the strongest public system possible.

Indeed, such a private system is more egalitarian than what exists now
because it *requires* those who have the means to pay for their children's
education to do so, thus taking the burden of educating those children off
of the public, leaving that much more money available for the truly needy.

That's a cute theory, but that's not how the world works. Those wealthier
people who can afford to pull their kids out of the public system are not
going to want to keep paying into the public system just to be kind those
who don't have the same resources they do.

Then don't give them that option. Make them pay income taxes or better yet
consumer goods sales taxes just like everybody else and use part of the
revenue to fund public education. They can carp all they like, but they
still have to pay.

Heeheee. Your naivete is so cute sometimes! They can do better than
carp...then can get the taxes removed.