Matt Welch Talks School Choice with Journalist Michelle Bernard

[CornerTalker]

Who's fault is it kids don't get a good education? Who fails to teach basics before kindergarten? Who doesn't enforce a bedtime in elementary and lets them run the streets in high school? Who won't make sure they do their homework? Who complains to the principal when a teacher is tough? Who has no books in their home? Who watches Jersey Shore at home instead of NatGeo/ Discovery/ History Channnel?

[rockinandout]

Yay for diversity.

[oilhammer04]

Realizing the American dream doesn't have anything to do with the sorry government schools. So many people just have so little gumption to better themselves. My wife and I homeschooled our children, so they would get an *education*. Don't look to the government to do anything well for you.

[MrApplewine]

Vouchers do not lead to freedom of education and school choice, only tax credits for education can provide freedom of education because you have total control over the education because it is your money. Vouchers are just hall passes from the master to go to your room of choice, which they then can control legally because it is no longer your money and they can have all the say of what goes on in that school, then its no longer your choice of what you get, all you did was abolish private schools

[thomaserossi]

@MrApplewine - You don't understand School Vouchers at all. Nor are tax credits what you think they are. Vouchers are NOT "hall passes" at all. You're completely wrong. Vouchers allow someone to attend any school, even online schools for home schoolers.

There is nothing more "choice" than that. Tax credits would allow illegals to get schooling here. They shouldn't. They should be thrown out on their asses.

[MrApplewine]

@thomaserossi Tax Credits vs. Vouchers. Listen to this first then I'll talk . URL equals tiny dot cc forward slash x2nhj .

[UTubekookdetector]

The public education system, much like the welfare state and Roe v. Wade has made it hard on minorities. It shouldn't surprise anyone that more blacks are aborted per capita than any other ethnic group since Roe v. Wade, more blacks are born out-of-wedlock since LBJ's war poverty and test scores for blacks have fallen since 1996. The public education system is destroying them. Why then, are Democrats generally against school choice?

[TravistheHuman]

I thought Obama was for school choice. I thought I read that in Reason. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[megagagnon1]

@TravistheHuman No Obama is anti-choice. The very first thing Obama did when he was elected was to defund the DC voucher program for the sake of the teachers union. Obama has supported unions in every way, good or bad.

[TravistheHuman]

@megagagnon1 Do we have any one issue allies in the Democratic party?

[LibertyDownUnder]

US Democrats treat Blacks much like the Hamas treats the people of Gaza, or Robert Mugabe treats Zimbabwe. They realise that a good education system and economic prosperity are the biggest threat to their power monopoly, and therefore they need to be held down by force.

In Africa and in the middle east this is done by brutallity & violence. In the US this is done by unions & organisations who claim to be 'for the good of the people', but really are the complete opposite,

[UTubekookdetector]

LIBERTY: I couldn't have said that better, you hit the nail right on the head my friend.

[Sheeeeeenful]

@LibertyDownUnder and what australians do to aborigenes...

What do you know about the arican american expericen in america ?

[Mementomori690069]

Is she black or just extremely tan.

[takerdust]

@Mementomori690069 its her makeup, and I don't mean genetic makeup, lol

[boristhepython]

she looks like she painted black

[VegasBilgeRat]

@boristhepython grats, thats the most childish shit I've read all day.

[boristhepython]

@VegasBilgeRat merely an observation...she looks like a blonde white girl who has black face on and hair dye...

[davematherly]

@boristhepython

She's hot.

A Nubian princess.

[DiNatalli]

Studies show that in the same so called "underfunded" schools with predominate blacks, Latinos & Asians. The Asians excel while the AA students don't. So the excuse for AA's is always "inequality,underfunding" as for why they can't keep up. But in the same schools other minorities do well. Go figure

[MsWanderer1]

That's not freedom; she's just someone who wants government to force her views on everyone else. She's not quite a libertarian yet!

[OneCerebralSamurai]

Ummm, what?!?!?!

What the hell is SHE doing on ReasonTV, or at FreedomFest?!?!

[abexylol]

@OneCerebralSamurai What do you mean?

[OneCerebralSamurai]

@abexylol I recognize her from MSNBC where she takes very anti-liberty positions all the time. She may be slightly to the right of many of the MSNBC talking heads, but she's always come across as a cultural-marxist / leftist. I've never once seen her challenge any of the extreme statist crap spewed on that channel.

[abexylol]

@OneCerebralSamurai Hahah ok, I was afraid you ment it was because she was black. I see your point, but interviewing people of all opinions is natural for any magazine. One wonders why she would be at FreedomFest though, indeed.

[OneCerebralSamurai]

@abexylol I wouldn't care if she were green with purple stripes. It just surprised me that someone would consistently express such anti-liberty views on cable TV, and then show up at FreedomFest. Maybe she was gathering intelligence on the opposition?

.... or maybe she actually is a closet Libertarian who just says statist crap on TV because of the attention and money?