Comments on: Might “Red Statism” Cause the Left to Embrace School Choice? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/might_red_stati.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Strong http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/might_red_stati.html/comment-page-1#comment-497 Michael Strong Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:57:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/might_red_stati.html#comment-497 <p>The hard Left, the opinion leaders, NGO leaders, foundation heads, and academics, will resist school choice for some time to come. That said, most cultural creatives are already warm to school choice. I have met many perfectly nice left-liberal NPR-listening educated young professionals who are against school choice - until their kids reach 4 or 5 years old and they look at their options. At that point the thought of a voucher that will allow them to send their kids to a Waldorf or Montessori school for free, instead of being dumped in the local public school, becomes very appealing to them. Mothering Magazine, the counter-culture alternative to Parenting magazine, published an article by a traditional Leftist attacking Milwaukee school choice and all of the letters came back in support of school choice - these people want good schools for their children, period. I have seen some survey results that show a majority of parents of young children favoring school choice; the most solid electoral constituencies against school choice are often older people (who may feel a loyalty towards public schools from back when they were better schools fifty years ago) and property owners in good school districts (often Republican) who perceive themselves as having nothing to gain from school choice and everything to lose. I am a libertarian from the cultural creative demographic and am writing a book making the case for school choice to cultural creatives; Heartland Institute has my first chapter posted at http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17771.</p> The hard Left, the opinion leaders, NGO leaders, foundation heads, and academics, will resist school choice for some time to come. That said, most cultural creatives are already warm to school choice. I have met many perfectly nice left-liberal NPR-listening educated young professionals who are against school choice – until their kids reach 4 or 5 years old and they look at their options. At that point the thought of a voucher that will allow them to send their kids to a Waldorf or Montessori school for free, instead of being dumped in the local public school, becomes very appealing to them. Mothering Magazine, the counter-culture alternative to Parenting magazine, published an article by a traditional Leftist attacking Milwaukee school choice and all of the letters came back in support of school choice – these people want good schools for their children, period. I have seen some survey results that show a majority of parents of young children favoring school choice; the most solid electoral constituencies against school choice are often older people (who may feel a loyalty towards public schools from back when they were better schools fifty years ago) and property owners in good school districts (often Republican) who perceive themselves as having nothing to gain from school choice and everything to lose. I am a libertarian from the cultural creative demographic and am writing a book making the case for school choice to cultural creatives; Heartland Institute has my first chapter posted at http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17771.

]]> By: Accidental Verbosity http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/might_red_stati.html/comment-page-1#comment-499 Accidental Verbosity Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:54:46 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/might_red_stati.html#comment-499 <strong>If you must be indocrinated, it's nice to choose in what.</strong> <p>Coyote Blog has an interesting post on the potential flexibility of school choice plans.  Given that we're planning to homeschool in part so that we don't have to spend our evenings beating* the socialism out of the kid(s), I think he... If you must be indocrinated, it's nice to choose in what.

Coyote Blog has an interesting post on the potential flexibility of school choice plans.  Given that we're planning to homeschool in part so that we don't have to spend our evenings beating* the socialism out of the kid(s), I think he…

]]> By: Multiple Mentality | www.multiplementality.com http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/might_red_stati.html/comment-page-1#comment-498 Multiple Mentality | www.multiplementality.com Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:02:26 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/might_red_stati.html#comment-498 <strong>The Carnival of the Vanities #121</strong> You may remember that the last Carnival I authored had a theme throughout. That time, the theme was Rush. (The band.) This time, it's everyone's favorite block of cartoon programming, [adult swim], that ties together this week's best of the blogo... The Carnival of the Vanities #121

You may remember that the last Carnival I authored had a theme throughout. That time, the theme was Rush. (The band.) This time, it’s everyone’s favorite block of cartoon programming, [adult swim], that ties together this week’s best of the blogo…

]]> By: Brad Reed http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/01/might_red_stati.html/comment-page-1#comment-496 Brad Reed Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:27:03 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/01/might_red_stati.html#comment-496 <p>I think you have to have <i>some</i> standards for what constitutes "schooling." I have no problem with people home-schooling their children, but if, say, they're taught all about Jesus and nothing about mathematics, we're going to have a pretty useless society.</p> <p>(And yes, I know most homeschoolers do indeed teach their kids math.)</p> I think you have to have some standards for what constitutes “schooling.” I have no problem with people home-schooling their children, but if, say, they’re taught all about Jesus and nothing about mathematics, we’re going to have a pretty useless society.

(And yes, I know most homeschoolers do indeed teach their kids math.)

]]>