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Seems like the media will be busy talking about Trump tweets in the next couple of days.
 

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Whenever I see something interesting online and I want to make a thread about it here, I see a certain poster had already posted it, what an a$$hole!!
 

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school vouchers started to get pushed after integration efforts

While most Virginians now assumed that the path forward would include gradual integration in most parts of the state, albeit with mechanisms holding it to a minimum, Professors Buchanan and Nutter made the case for the very opposite: unlimited privatization of education. As believers in individual liberty, they said, they approved of neither “involuntary (or coercive) segregation” nor “involuntary integration.”21 Tax-funded private schools were the answer.

They offered a plan they believed could salvage what remained of massive resistance while surviving court review. How? Privatize education, but do so on the basis of strictly economic arguments. First and foremost, they contended that public schools, which they insisted on referring to as “state-run schools,” had an effective “monopoly.” They lacked adequate competition, because on their own, few parents could afford alternatives. As a result, like all monopolies, state-run schools had no incentive to improve. “Privately operated schools,” by contrast, would have to compete for students, so they would have a strong incentive to try out a “diversity” of curricula, not only encouraging experimentation but meeting different tastes. In essence, “every parent could cast his vote in the [educational] marketplace and have it count.” To foster this system, Virginia should provide a tax-subsidized voucher to any parent who wished to send a child to a private school for any reason. Those schools, being private, would enjoy autonomy, admitting or rejecting students as they chose to, without government interference.22



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