On the drive to work today I was listening to NPR, when Amy Quinton profiled the Charlotte NC school system's plan to end busing and allow parents the opportunity to pick which school their children attend. Oh the horror! What caught my attention was how Ms. Quinton marvelled at allowing parents to decide where their children should go to school, like this was some radical new idea. I have a basic problem with that sentence, by the way. How in the world did we allow the government to take away that right to begin with?
Not to sound like a broken record or anything, but this is the direct result of Lee's surrender at Appomatox.(Yes, I just tied the failings of our educational system to the War Between the States. What will I do for an encore?)
Posted by Rich at February 25, 2002 2:35 PM