Jason's Rationale for Voting for President Bush: Education

As for school vouchers, I would support vouchers. I live in an area of DC where the schools aren’t so great. If I stay here for many years and have children here, and if my children happen to be hearing, and those schools are still dysfunctional, I would very much like to have the option of sending my kid to another school. Preferably a school where both deaf children and hearing children of deaf adults (not necessarily limited to these groups) are commingled. Democracy is all about accountability. If you take the schools’ accountability away from the children and their parents, there is no incentive for the school system to try their utmost to be the best. If a school has problems with maintaining optimal enrollment levels (last I heard, classes were overflowin’) there means there is something wrong with their education system. It is just like businesses- if you can’t provide what your customers want, they will take their business elsewhere.
Now, that of course will put some schools at a certain disadvantage. That is why President Bush is supporting a 2-year "teachers corps" program- a scholarship program in which, in return for the government’s support of your education, you should teach for 2 years at an "disadvantaged" school. That is exactly what I think the government should provide- "free' education, quality education. That is essentially what I am doing right now, only that Gallaudet is financially supporting me for my studies towards my PhD at George Washington Univ. In return for their financial support, I am an indentured servant for Gallaudet for five years. Nice tradeoff, eh? Gallaudet gains the number of Deaf professors with PhDs they sorely need, by subsidizing the education needed in order to get those assets. That is essentially what the Bush Administration wants to do with our education system.

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