European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse With Chelsea going private vouchers still a bad idea i him wit local parents and Minooi officials were min disappointed Ali he Imp and Hillary Clinton decided to bypass Washington s Ithily f cd Niit to Send Ali eur daughter Clra Leeiii in Bidwell pro Tim it popular Haven for lire children of Washington # Rich. 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No voucher plan imagined would give pit rents any sum a enormous As he $10,11110 tuition required at Eldwell or lets much of the support for vouchers comes from conservative who Don t like government very much mid Hope vouchers will Cost less hum wind we Hutc now. To must remember hint the vast in Julty of private schools Cost n m less hum Eldwell Hilands mid sumy do just us Good it Jolt of leaching. I he average for Washington al Holly or turn schools for exam Pic is fish Oil $2,500 Imd $5,400 for High schools. While it s often easy to hash Public schools thin goodbye Bush and enjoy the Good life a filth d nil it. Hush we re All a a Lille wot Iii in about you you Don t look like Yum old self. Lloyc a a my i Tiv you look Hill and a Hub Imp d in in not d m ii you i o having a Good time thu was sum fuss now Chiwa if i Hap my pro hrs i o go to a a it Schoot my Owh self Forit moment Imp much better they would he if they had the ability to reject or eject students with he inv Ioctl problems learning disabilities and other special needs is red wkly As private schools schools would my he producing nearly As Many of the horror stories so Many of us arc Hereu of hearing about. Private schools Are by their nature self selective. Parents who Lake the Lime and Effort to shop for a private school and participate More often than not in a variety of school related Volunteer work arc the Type of parents most Likely to Send their kids to school ready to learn Public schools in poor neighbourhoods can Only dream of that level of parental while voucher advocates Hammer the Clinton As Quot limousine liberals Quot and Click their tongues in sympathy Over Hie poor students left behind by More fortunate elites vouchers would create a new Junior elite Hud by taking support from Public reboots would leave their students even further behind. The new Junior elite would consist of parents and students not wealthy enough to attend school with Chelsea Clinton hut privileged enough to at least Transfer my of Public schools and into a newly affordable private school flood for them hut too bad for the rest. World War i medical corpsman had a name Tor such prescriptions. They were called it Means you help Only those who appear to have the Best Chance of surviving and leave the hardest eases those Wiio Are barely hanging on to die vouchers sound attractive when we despair the most Over the male of Yuihan education in America lug your visit to the troops in Somalia and your meetings with your old Pat Horis Yeltsin but All in All you Don t look like a Tappy person. It must he bugging you unit you lost the election. It s understandable h s like when an athlete gets to the championship and then loses the big game you can t help thinking about Bow you blew it a and you did blow it Loo. Pm not going easy on you there. Ii was yours to win. Dorr forget you to not the list person who Ever got turned Down running for a second term its president of the United Stales. Of the 41 men who have been president including Hill Clinton i count 17 who were re elected and 21 who served Only one term. Pleven of those urn for re cd Eclam like you did and got beaten. Like Yon did. I Light died in office live of them timing their tint Teim the others did no to want to be president anymore. Maybe you could have someone Check me on those log pcs whatever the Case it s no disgrace to lose an at Imit or be in Etc Ted president so Buck up t Ico Ige to you re Gonna be line. You Ciru i a great pies Cut mid you in no going lit get a second Ham a tit Lay listen you did better most of but i do not believe our Public schools arc dead yet. In Spile of the horror stories there is still considerable learning going on in Public schools. Those who despair should take a look at some of the Success stories. Grok for example at new York s East liar Lam District 4. Ii was the City a poorest performing District a decade ago when school and Community leaders got together to make every school in the District a a Magnet Quot school. They encouraged Competition among the schools talked school bureaucrats and teachers unions into relaxing unnecessary rules broke up big schools into smaller schools within schools and counselled parents so they could make intelligent choices in shopping for schools. In other words they implemented a Choice Quot which is not n bad thing to have without turning to vouch Cis and offered parents informed choices among Good schools not phony choices among bail schools. Ii wuss l cheap but it works. The District has soared from Tho City s Iro Tom to near the top in performance Clinton mentioned similar Public school Success stories on the Campaign Trail and promised to help create More. Too bail he could t find any in Tho District of Columbia that were Good enough or secure enough for Chelsea. Hut in Tho cud his performance As president will be graded not on the education opportunities to finds for his own child but Oil Lial to produces to help everyone close s. Tho Cal Coo til buns us who never even got to be president once ump at Carter Nixon Reagan and lord. They re having a pretty Good Lime they got used to not being president and people Mill Call each of them a emr you get a pension of $ih0, 0, that s better Ilian a poke in the Tail with a Sharp stick and you la have enough secret service Guys around so you can leave your car in the driveway without even taking the keys out of he ignition. Maybe the Best thing of Ute is you re always going to be a former president of Hie United states no one Cun Ever take that away from you. When they make the list you la be on it. And you la be in demand Loo there Isnit a big convention in the country Lliel would t pay you $15, to say a few words after dessert. It in t As though you re going to he Home alone with a Uhuru envy saturday night for the rest of your life. The Best revenge you could have is to become the most popular cd pies Deul there Ever was. Help Hill in Lulon lie or. 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