Comments on: Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Whicket Williams Kin http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-56825 Whicket Williams Kin Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:29 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-56825 We need every individual who is concerned about freedom to help ELIMINATE the career politician. This will require the greatest grass roots movement in history, as the machine controls the money and the media. Find someone you trust, talk them into running, and make sure they WIN! Make sure your local career politician bites the dust! All politics are local! After we eliminate enough of them, we can have a vote for term limits. It All starts with YOU! start now, pass this message in your own words any way you chose, but ACT. The only way they will listen to us is if enough of them are eliminated at one time YOU must make sure YOUR local incumbent is replaced with someone YOU know and trust. We need every individual who is concerned about freedom to help ELIMINATE the career politician. This will require the greatest grass roots movement in history, as the machine controls the money and the media. Find someone you trust, talk them into running, and make sure they WIN! Make sure your local career politician bites the dust! All politics are local! After we eliminate enough of them, we can have a vote for term limits. It All starts with YOU! start now, pass this message in your own words any way you chose, but ACT. The only way they will listen to us is if enough of them are eliminated at one time YOU must make sure YOUR local incumbent is replaced with someone YOU know and trust.

]]> By: Jim Hoel, Blue Sprin http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-56608 Jim Hoel, Blue Sprin Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:38:08 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-56608 People who live in Sweden don't think it is a "socialist country". Here is a reply from one of their citizens: "Yes, the system works quite well. Edward is in a small private Montessori school. I´m not sure I like that Sweden is being called a Socialist country. To me it´s a bad word. Sweden is a democracy and is led by a right wing government. Admittedly, right wing in Sweden is more like the US democrats than the Republicans." People who live in Sweden don't think it is a "socialist country". Here is a reply from one of their citizens:

"Yes, the system works quite well. Edward is in a small private Montessori school.

I´m not sure I like that Sweden is being called a Socialist country. To me it´s a bad word. Sweden is a democracy and is led by a right wing government.

Admittedly, right wing in Sweden is more like the US democrats than the Republicans."

]]> By: Dale, NY http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55645 Dale, NY Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:39:14 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55645 choice will not work because segregation is alive and well in the US. Of course it can work in Sweden, everyone is blonde haired and blue eyed. choice will not work because segregation is alive and well in the US. Of course it can work in Sweden, everyone is blonde haired and blue eyed.

]]> By: You decide: What “works” in education? : School Choice Virginia http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55566 You decide: What “works” in education? : School Choice Virginia Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:46:20 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55566 [...] Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry Blog shares: Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden. Yeah, you read that right. Sweden. In socialist Sweden, universal school choice allows every [...] [...] Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry Blog shares: Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden. Yeah, you read that right. Sweden. In socialist Sweden, universal school choice allows every [...]

]]> By: Lynn B. DeSpain http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55615 Lynn B. DeSpain Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:33:05 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55615 The best way to improve any product is through open competition, in an open market! The same holds true for our Schools. Parents should be allowed to spend their allotment, what the government spends per child, on any school that the Parent decides is best for the child's education. Hozro The best way to improve any product is through open competition, in an open market! The same holds true for our Schools. Parents should be allowed to spend their allotment, what the government spends per child, on any school that the Parent decides is best for the child's education.

Hozro

]]> By: ronaldo, Vermont http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55575 ronaldo, Vermont Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:12:58 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55575 Heritage readers probably all know the reasons WHY educational choice hasn't been implemented. But complaining about unions, tenure, etc, won't move the ball forward. Obama opened the door when he said that competition is healthy. Of course we can know he meant, in promoting the "public option" that he ONLY meant healthcare. But that's no reason not to use HIS words to renew a fight for vouchers/credits/whatever. We want a "PRIVATE OPTION" for education. Stick to that phrase and stick him with his own words. Heritage readers probably all know the reasons WHY educational choice hasn't been implemented. But complaining about unions, tenure, etc, won't move the ball forward.

Obama opened the door when he said that competition is healthy. Of course we can know he meant, in promoting the "public option" that he ONLY meant healthcare.

But that's no reason not to use HIS words to renew a fight for vouchers/credits/whatever. We want a "PRIVATE OPTION" for education. Stick to that phrase and stick him with his own words.

]]> By: Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden » The Foundry « Eastaustinvoice’s Weblog http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55442 Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden » The Foundry « Eastaustinvoice’s Weblog Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:50 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55442 [...] September 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden » The Foundry. [...] [...] September 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment Universal School Choice Prevails – For Sweden » The Foundry. [...]

]]> By: DAN MOFFATT http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55535 DAN MOFFATT Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:44 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55535 The idea that something like this could be implemented in America is absurd.The reason?Too many hands have to be greased.Children lose again.Too big a problem for us to handle,no incentive to change.Again,children lose.It would be nice to see someone speaking on behalf of the children.Do we have such an option?result !! The status quo is maintained. The idea that something like this could be implemented in America is absurd.The reason?Too many hands have to be greased.Children lose again.Too big a problem for us to handle,no incentive to change.Again,children lose.It would be nice to see someone speaking on behalf of the children.Do we have such an option?result !! The status quo is maintained.

]]> By: Linda Carlsbad, CA http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55523 Linda Carlsbad, CA Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:04:07 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55523 I saw the DC voucher program debated in Congress. I know the President could have prevented this program from being cancelled. He refused, he didn't want those low income children going to school with his kids! So much for standing up for better education. I felt so bad for the kids, they were on Fox. Now they have to go to school in an unsafe neighborhood. With all the money in Washington, WHY ARE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO BAD? I saw the DC voucher program debated in Congress. I know the President could have prevented this program from being cancelled. He refused, he didn't want those low income children going to school with his kids! So much for standing up for better education. I felt so bad for the kids, they were on Fox. Now they have to go to school in an unsafe neighborhood. With all the money in Washington, WHY ARE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO BAD?

]]> By: Lloyd Scallan - New http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/14/universal-school-choice-prevails-%e2%80%93-for-sweden/#comment-55504 Lloyd Scallan - New Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:31:53 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=14692#comment-55504 As long as the left is in power, we will never have a vouchers or any reform in our deployable education system. Today, schools are training ground, not places of learning. The teachers are, for the most part, left-wing, union members, reading from altered text book that have been purged of the true facts and substituted with the lies of the radical left. As long as the left is in power, we will never have a vouchers or any reform in our deployable education system. Today, schools are training ground, not places of learning. The teachers are,

for the most part, left-wing, union members, reading from altered text book that have been

purged of the true facts and substituted with the

lies of the radical left.

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