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...that's not the reality. And poor children in run-down schools are left in the crossfire. They not only have to be lucky enough to get a lottery number high enough to escape a poor school. They also have to be lucky enough to have a parent savvy enough with the school system to know which schools are good for their children...
...staff's second and larger error is their confusion of class elitism with educational elitism. A parent's or student's choice of private over public school is not, as they cynically assume, motivated solely or mainly by snobbery. Leaving aside the most extreme case--kids wanting to leave ghetto schools because of violence--there are many valid reasons why a public school would be wrong for a certain child...
...acutely ironic to realize that formerly communist Russia has already adopted full educational choice, effectively dismantling the failed monolith of bureaucratic public education. Beginning January 1, Russian parents will be completely reimbursed for sending their children to private schools, thereby allowing families to bypass the incompetent state-controlled educational factory. Monday's Wall Street Journal aptly notes that "a parent in Moscow will have more freedom to select a good school than most parents in America." This prospect is extremely embarassing...
...castigation of Joseph McCarthy. Clinton, in an attempt to humanize himself, invoked almost every member of his family, both living and dead -- his recovering drug-addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan knew how to do schmaltz; no one else should ever...
Other contentious issues will arise. Doctors will be able to detect many serious genetic diseases at the fetal stage, which will lead some parents to opt for abortion. But there will also be preventive measures for people who want to avoid passing their defective genes on to their children. When one parent carries the deadly and dominant gene for Huntington's chorea, for example, there is a 50% chance that any offspring will have it too. To reduce those odds to zero, doctors of the future will extract several eggs from the prospective mother and fertilize them in a test...