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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Query:  If you can afford to purchase a luxury car with all the bells and whistles, why shouldn’t you if you so choose, or should you allow society to shame you into purchasing a more modest vehicle?  So if an elite private school offers a superior educational experience, and you can afford to send your child to one, why wouldn’t you?  Why should society shame the parents who send their kids to such schools or the kids who attend?  Perhaps society should a examine how the public schools have failed our kids and misspent all the public funds allocated toward public education.[/quote]

The only problem is that the choice increasingly seems to be between the luxury car, and taking Metrobus.  The latter is crowded, inconvenient, and sporadically doesn't show up.  We don't need to shame the people with cars but we do need the bus to function much much better than it does.  We need it to be safe, reliable, accessible, and even pleasant and enriching to ride.  Unfortunately there are people who feel that if the bus is nice to ride, that makes their luxury car less special.[/quote]

This is a great analogy. My kid was lucky enough to get a Mercedes for the price of a Yugo, but it still grieves me that it I couldn’t feel good about letting him take the bus.

For what it’s worth, after spending many years rubbing elbows with Mercedes owners, I honestly have yet to meet one who doesn’t support improving buses. I[b] have literally never heard one express anything but good will and support towards the bus system[/b]. [/quote]

Nah, I hear a lot of people who don't want to pay more in taxes, or who want vouchers and "school choice" because they don't want to pay for the public schools. I also get a lot of side eye because I'm still involved with the (small, starved) PTA at our old public school. 
Good will and support needs to be backed by money and action. [/quote]

Nahhh. I live in Baltimore and we pay a LOT in taxes -- and the schools are still abysmal. Per pupil funding is in the top 5 for [b]the entire US[/b]. This isn't a question of not wanting to cough up taxes. And school vouchers are not a big deal to those who have kids in schools that cost $30k. The amount of money that vouchers provide is a drop in the bucket. It's more germane to those who send their kids to cheaper religious schools.

I pay sky-high taxes; I don't support voucher programs. I always vote for school bonds etc. Other than sending our kids to failing schools, what do you want private school parents to do? Real question.[/quote]

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