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There are plenty of ways that our city can foment "exposure" without misguided and doomed to backfire communist like techniques . [b]Charter schools and voucher choices were one of the best ways to broaden educational-geographical offerings in our city in a long time, along with the lottery system.[/b] Folks have far more say and.mobility in their kids choices, without being forced into something. As to housing, the city could use their excess funds for specific groups of people (long time residents, rent to buy etc) rather than just encouraging rampant building that will provide more housing to yuppies from Arlington .[/quote]

Vouchers were created as a way for middle class white people to flee integrated public schools.  They are 100% a tool for supporting segregation.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/do-private-school-vouchers-promote-segregation/520392/

Integrating public schools has nothing to do with communism.  Equality of opportunity is one of the central organizing ideas of the United States.[/quote]

NP. You may view this as equality of opportunity for the kids, but from the parents’ generation’s perspective, you are equalizing outcomes, since their ability to move into a desirable neighborhood and send their kids to a desirable school is an important outcome of their life’s work. Taking that away is absolutely a move that is reminiscent of socialist strategies of forced equalization. Nobody with options will submit to it. History has shown this over and over again.[/quote]

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