Our 2 children attend 2 different private schools. They are currently in 4th grade and 9th grade. Neither of them has seen the inside of a public school, and God willing, they never will. We are lower-to-mid middle class, my wife works full time and I run a very small business. We choose to invest our money in our children’s futures instead of buying new cars, homes, taking big vacations, etc. We are sick of hearing all the whining about vouchers. Look, if we get vouchers you can be assured they will come with strings attached, allowing for some of that ever-popular "government oversight". No thanks! Private schools may be easier to afford for the wealthy, but are still very affordable for those who choose to make education a high priority. We pay to have more religion and academics with less oversight and bureaucracy. Let’s keep it that way! Vouchers will only result in the eventual “dumbing down” of our private schools.

The BO being hypocritical on schools is based on him being against the use of vouchers and such so we can choose which school to send our rug rats. According to BO you either put up with the crappy school in your neighborhood or shell out major bucks to go to a private school. We went with the crappy local, but watched over every piece of homework, went to the school, had several meetings with teachers to demand better behaviour on their part. Because of that, our son actually received a pretty good government education. He's in the 1500 club. But it wasn't thanks to the teachers union!!! Unfortunately, most parents won't go that extra mile.

Golly Fred, you sure put me in my place. So as not to offend your delicate sensibilities: Errata: "essence", "Destruction, "Argument."

Feel better now?

And as for the crack about being a product of the public schools, yes, I am, and that would include my post-graduate degree as well, thanks for asking.

You can call the Obamas hypocrites all you want, I still say from a security standpoint it would be impractical to impossible for their kids to attend a public school. I believe the last time it was tried was with Amy Carter and they finally had to put her into private school for that very reason.

Alabamastan wrote: "If you support the dismantling of and ultimate distruction of public schools, come out and say it."

I support the dismantling and ultimate destruction of goverenment schools.

And by your spelling we can see that you are a product of government schools.

There is no hypocrisy in Neal's opinion. The problem is not whether or not one can pay for private schools; the problem is that the politicians who denounce a school choice system claim the government run system is just as good and then send their own children to private schools. This is not just the Obamas, they hypocrisy is surely not limited to them.

Kick butt Israel! You have every right to protect yourselves. Tell anybody not on your side to take a hike and top the list with the UN!

Maybe you can talk on the radio about Gertrude Bell, the formation of what is called the middle east, the ethnic tensions between the people of the middle east and how many middle easterners did not appreciate colonial intervention under the British after WWI, so that we get a full picture of what's going on over there. Also maybe you can remind Americans of what the Founding Fathers did as a reaction to unwanted British colonial intervention.

Stolen election
Apparently Al Franken manged to do what AlGore failed to do in 2000. Congrats, Stewart Smallie!
By Ubiquitous @ 01/05/09 10:31:08 AM
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You're kidding, right?

BO is a hypocrite about everything. Not just school choice. He ran on helping out the middle class, yet spends millions on a stupid vacation to Hawaii. How dumb does he think we are??

A private school is just that--private. They would have greater control over press, paparazzi, the curious.

School Choice is nothing more than the abandonment of public schools and a backdoor attempt to dismantle the system. Pulling tax money away from the public school system to provide vouchers to send kids to private school will certainly do nothing for the public schools. If you support the dismantling of and ultimate distruction of public schools, come out and say it.

Israel didnt steal anything. Read American law, conquerers always win the property battle. If palestine wants to be treated like a country, then they should act like one. Instead of relying on Israel for medical services, electrical, water, and everything else, maybe palestine should spend money on those services instead of bombs.

So Israel is bad, then I guess so is Australia, Canada, USA, and Europe for also not talking to a terrorist organization.

Israel is stealing land is the same as USA is stealing land from Mexico, France, and England.

If palestine wants to be a country, then they should start acting like one

Interesting comment. So having the Obama's kids at a private school isn't distracting to the kids there?

The point was Obama strongly opposes letting parents use their tax dollars to direct their kids to a better education system than the public school offers. Yes, he has the money to pay for a private education, but isn't that rather elitist and hypocritical that his kids go but he opposes others (the commoners) doing the same and helping them achieve what he is able to? Seems to me that a school choice program would be the ultimate affirmative action program.

Israel wouldn't be in their situation if they didn't steal Arab land. Israel's "settlers" (land thieves) caused all this.
Why do we support Israel anyway? They do nothing for us and we give them 2.4 billion dollars every year in "aid".