Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 | 2 a.m.
I felt compelled to respond to a Saturday Las Vegas Sun editorial, “By any other name.”
The editorial ridicules President Bush for calling for a $300 million program that would provide low-income parents with grants to help them send their children to private or religious schools. This “entitlement,” in my opinion, would be for the betterment of the education of children in the lower spectrum of our society.
Why is a certain segment of our society so vehemently against this program? One reason is that there is a push for the elimination of freedom of choice in many facets of our lives, including education, which is not in lockstep with the critics’ views. It is the liberal left that is pursuing this agenda.
How can a Sun editorial, in good conscience, say that public schools are the best way to ensure that a nation’s citizens are literate and productive members of society? It sounds as if this statement was co-authored by the teachers union and school boards solely for their own interests, and not for the students.
Why are teachers unions and school boards able to set up contracts that make teachers “fire-proof” after two years of tenure? This is just one of many reasons the public school system is in shambles and not as your editorial states.
Perhaps the Sun’s editorial board is broad-minded enough to rethink its view and give the credence to President Bush’s proposal it rightly deserves.
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