The American Spectator

yvonne| 10.16.08 @ 12:29AM

mccain and obama were both wrong about public education needing to have "competition" as evidenced by charter schools and vouchers. parents and teachers choose to create charter school not to compete with district schools, but to have more say and input in the education of a specific group of students. charter schools are still public school that are schools of choice.

vouchers are a very bad idea and have not been utilized throughout the country in any consistent manner. mccain blundered when he offered the voucher system in dc schools as an example of progressive education fo the following reasons:

1. dc schools are notoriously bad 2. vouchers in dc schools account for VERY few students...what about all of the other public school children? 3. vouchers privatize something that should be a civic right for all students - not just the isolated few who are able to obtain vouchers