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stoney321I sent in another letter to the editor about school vouchers, and they're printing it tomorrow. \o/ Snark phasers set to HIGH.
Original Letter From An Idiot
Re: "Vouchers are just welfare" by Beverly Rigsy and "PBS vital to democracy" Letters Feb. 14
It never ceases to amaze me that some people think that my taxes should be used to pay for PBS and public schools. But, should I want some of my taxes to pay for private schools or non-liberal TV, it is considered welfare and I am not entitled to it.
Vouchers are a way for me to get some of my tax funds back. I have paid for public schools to propagandize one of my kids and now am trying to limit it on the other.And if PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own or be paid for by the people who want it.
~ [Name of jerkwad, My City]
My response:
[Name of Jerkwad], who despises the "liberal" PBS channel and its programming-- wait. What's liberal about PBS? Is it Masterpiece Theater? NOVA and that hog-wash Nature? Nope, must be Sesame Street, ooooh that's liberal stuff right there! With its letters and feelings and songs! They just let all those puppets PLAY together! And they're not the same color, and you know what I'm talking about there. (Personally, I'm a little iffy on that whole Bert and Ernie living situation.)
This response brought to you by the letters W, T and H.
~signed, my real name
"If PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own, or be paid for by the people who want it." HEY! IT DOES! A small portion of government funding isn't making or breaking it, bub. They provide 15% of the CPB's funding. (Which translates to a larger portion for small towns. You know, where people who don't have a lot of money tend to be, and probably NEED free educational TV.)
Also, Arthur is a show about brown people. And Reading Rainbow? Mmm hmmm. It's all subterfuge for Gay Pride. That's how they getcha! EYE. ROLL.
PEOPLE. It is in YOUR BENEFIT to have an educated populace. As one wise woman said about her son to another woman (and I'll never forget) "I can train him up now, or he can be robbing you in five years."
Original Letter From An Idiot
Re: "Vouchers are just welfare" by Beverly Rigsy and "PBS vital to democracy" Letters Feb. 14
It never ceases to amaze me that some people think that my taxes should be used to pay for PBS and public schools. But, should I want some of my taxes to pay for private schools or non-liberal TV, it is considered welfare and I am not entitled to it.
Vouchers are a way for me to get some of my tax funds back. I have paid for public schools to propagandize one of my kids and now am trying to limit it on the other.And if PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own or be paid for by the people who want it.
~ [Name of jerkwad, My City]
My response:
[Name of Jerkwad], who despises the "liberal" PBS channel and its programming-- wait. What's liberal about PBS? Is it Masterpiece Theater? NOVA and that hog-wash Nature? Nope, must be Sesame Street, ooooh that's liberal stuff right there! With its letters and feelings and songs! They just let all those puppets PLAY together! And they're not the same color, and you know what I'm talking about there. (Personally, I'm a little iffy on that whole Bert and Ernie living situation.)
This response brought to you by the letters W, T and H.
~signed, my real name
"If PBS is so necessary, it needs to stand on its own, or be paid for by the people who want it." HEY! IT DOES! A small portion of government funding isn't making or breaking it, bub. They provide 15% of the CPB's funding. (Which translates to a larger portion for small towns. You know, where people who don't have a lot of money tend to be, and probably NEED free educational TV.)
Also, Arthur is a show about brown people. And Reading Rainbow? Mmm hmmm. It's all subterfuge for Gay Pride. That's how they getcha! EYE. ROLL.
PEOPLE. It is in YOUR BENEFIT to have an educated populace. As one wise woman said about her son to another woman (and I'll never forget) "I can train him up now, or he can be robbing you in five years."
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Date: 2007-02-23 10:25 pm (UTC)As far as private schools - for the most part they come in two varieties. Religious, and last I checked the government still was out of the particular business. And prep school, which are for the rich who can already afford it, thanks much.
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Date: 2007-02-23 10:36 pm (UTC)Our average cost for private schools in DFW is about 20,000 a year. !!! I'd like to make known that my kids, who are in PUBLIC school, know more math and science than our friends who shell out 50K a year for private ELEMENTARY.
it's not like their kids are at Choate or Eton where they're hobnobbing with bluenoses, you know?
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Date: 2007-02-23 11:07 pm (UTC)::boggles:: I thought we had it bad. Our hippy elementary school is $6,000 a year ::winces::, and the middle school is $4,000. (Yes, all my freelancing money goes directly to the school payments, and my parents help, otherwise, they'd be in public school.)
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Date: 2007-02-23 11:35 pm (UTC)And I'm not knocking private school, I should make that clear. I'm just a big fan of our public school. The school I mentioned in my tl:dr comment above was our old school, and I loved that my kids were in the minority. Unfortunately, we had a REALLY unsafe neighborhood (we lived on the other side of those million dollar homes) so we moved to the burbs where we have kids from all over the world in the public school.
I just can't swing those high tickets for three kids!
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Date: 2007-02-24 12:08 am (UTC)I hear that. Two is killing us, but knowing what I know about the schools here, I'm determined to keep them in. At least Little Tree will be in public school (hopefully, the IB program) before Peri is in school.
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Date: 2007-02-24 01:40 am (UTC)