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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A faulty analogy... I can see where you're going, but travel soccer is not public school.  For one, it's optional and with few exceptions, kids are paying much more to play travel.  Public school is taxpayer funded and a requirement for all.  This makes the question of who is getting better resources in public school much more of an issue since resources are finite and must be shared.

This is precisely it.  The travel soccer analogy is so tired, overused, and INACCURATE.  Travel sports are privately funded, not taxpayer funded.  I don't care how kids are picked or sorted for privately funded activities.  But I do care very much how my public tax dollars are being spent.  I'm happy to spend them on services for special needs kids.  But that's [b]not [/b]what AAP is.

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Sports is a suitable analogy in response to the constantly off-key "my kid is marginalized!" shrieking.  The private/public distinction is just an excuse to sidestep it.  Go explain it to the taxpayers who don't even have kids.  Crying about the significance of tax dollars just shows you don't know how government actually works.  [/quote]

I think even taxpayers who don't have kids can agree that educating the youth of our community is critical to our future.  I certainly did for all the years I paid taxes before I ever took advantage of the schools....if you don't see the distinction between private/public perhaps you're the one who doesn't understand how things work.  [/quote]

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