tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6775718227427509999..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Kids TodayJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-77579946140511326082011-02-01T19:46:50.280-05:002011-02-01T19:46:50.280-05:00Throughout the history of school desegregation, it...Throughout the history of school desegregation, it was common practice for white parents to falsify address records to avoid schools that were seen as too dark and to get their kids into "better" schools.DWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76060567227360839772011-02-01T08:37:23.020-05:002011-02-01T08:37:23.020-05:00This is a local story to me, and there's more ...This is a local story to me, and there's more to it than that. The school gave the mom the choice of paying tuition after she got caught, and she refused. Meanwhile, she continued to claim her kids were living with her father and she stayed where she lived, continued to pick the kids up and bring them home.<br /><br />She had choices - she could have moved in with her father and had the kids lorettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425764711510261055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-64294985840778685462011-01-31T21:40:19.481-05:002011-01-31T21:40:19.481-05:00Those lovely vouchers... "Let's give ever...Those lovely vouchers... "Let's give everyone $1500 vouchers and then let them pick which $20k per year private school to send their kids."<br /><br />Totally great solution, if you happen to be upper middle class and desirous of a subsidy you don't need.TMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16972726941993291842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-65902622095141189542011-01-31T18:36:30.077-05:002011-01-31T18:36:30.077-05:00What does it say when parents' options are so ...<i>What does it say when parents' options are so limited that they commit felonies to avoid terrible schools? </i><br /><br />Well, it says to me that an investment should be made in the terrible schools to improve them, but I know that can't be the right answer.ckc (not kc)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05731097323974389961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-30470156812380445872011-01-31T16:28:18.829-05:002011-01-31T16:28:18.829-05:00"Daniels would make the best President of any..."Daniels would make the best President of any Republican hopeful."<br />Not a very high bar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com