Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Utahns Can Vote For School Choice Tuesday

FYI, John Stossel weighs in on Utah's voucher vote.

Utahns Can Vote for School Choice Tuesday

Posted by Tyler Farrer at 8:51 AM

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7 comments:

Jeremy said...

Utahns can also vote for fiscal sensibility and maintenance of a good education system by voting against Referendum 1.

Stossel clearly has no clue about the particulars of Utah's voucher plan.

12:02 PM
Tyler Farrer said...

Utahns will vote for fiscal sensibility and maintenance of a good education system by voting for Referendum 1.

There, I've just done a drive-by on my own blog.

12:26 PM
Jeremy said...

Heh...I thought the original post was the drive-by!

12:37 PM
rmwarnick said...

Stossel apparently doesn't know that the private school voucher plan is an attempt to get Utahns to pay for an expensive experiment in school privatization. One that was thought up by a bunch of multi-millionaires in Michigan, of all places. Let them run their experiment in somebody else's state.

12:49 PM
Tyler Farrer said...

As expensive experiments go, this one spends the money well--and from the general fund. Meaning public education won't be sacrificed in the process.

And if you don't think that there are Utahn's invested in the success of vouchers, just some Michigan millionaires, than you don't know me. I've never been to Michigan.

Besides, it doesn't matter where the ideas, or money, originates. If it did matter then anti-voucher support coming from the NEA is suspect too.

4:01 PM
Jeremy said...

I think that if you had given this a little more thought you would realize how foolish and anti-conservative this legislation is. School choice isn't a bad goal but this law does more harm than good.

I recommend you talk to Paramaphil at Green Jello or David at Pursuit of Liberty. They both supported this legislation but reversed positions after studying the law's actual provisions. This voucher plan causes more harm than it is worth.

I agree with you on your point that the referendum should be supported or opposed on its merits...not on who funds the campaigns.

9:40 PM
Tyler Farrer said...

"I think that if you had given this a little more thought..."

That gives me absolutely no credit for the study that I have given this issue. Just a little more, and then I would reverse myself?

Okay.

"...you would realize how foolish and anti-conservative this legislation is."

Anti-conservative? If it is anti-conservative in the same way that it is to fund public education, then you can call me a liberal. I won't argue on that point.

"...Paramaphil at Green Jello or David at Pursuit of Liberty."

I've read their posts, and I'm not convinced. Maybe because I started with the actual facts and have only recently become acquainted with the rhetoric. :)

10:43 PM

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