Your Turn: Jan. 19 - mySanAntonio.com
Once again the Texas Legislature and its special-interests cohort are pushing for school vouchers, saying that they would save Texans billions. Legislators would do anything to divert the state’s constitutional obligation to provide a quality education for Texas children. However, if you are going to have public education, do it right. Public schools need to return to basics, more reading, writing and ’rithmetic, while teaching some good ol’ life lessons on how to get a job, write a résumé and become a worthwhile citizen. That is what public education should be, but the conservatives love private schools. Campbell wants to give private education more regulations. If you don’t want public education, then get rid of it and let people pay for private schools and dump the responsibility onto the parents to educate their children … but the liberals love their public education. He appointed David Stockman Director of the Office of Management and Budget with the express purpose of eliminating programs of little value to the country as a whole so as to offset the Reagan tax cuts. The recommended cuts would have cut programs precious to individual congressmen and, as a result, got nowhere. Cutting spending is a noble idea, but when congressmen depend on special-interest money to finance their re-elections, it is. Source: www.mysanantonio.com
