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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....?

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.

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.

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