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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:46:39 -0500
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- Subject: Re: The reality of the Clinton school choice.
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- In addition to agreeing with everything Anne Pemberton said
- about the Clintons' school choice, I do want to offer a bit of
- additional background--thanks to the incessant coverage in the
- Washington Post of everything Clinton-esque. It is clear from
- numerous stories about both Bill and Hillary that their own
- school experiences were powerful influences on their later lives--
- they both still have friends they made dating back from elementary
- school, high school, college (he at Georgetown and she at Wellesley),
- his year at Oxford, and finally at Yale Law School. The people
- they met and their other experiences surely must incline them to
- want schooling to be an equally rich experience for their own
- daughter, whether or not her father happens to be President. To
- quote an earlier pol of similar Democratic species--"Why not the
- best?"
- Bob Stonehill
- Director ERIC Program
- U.S. Dept. of Education
-
- P.S.--Trust me--during the past 12 years here at ED there has been
- PLENTY of whining about the costs of private school. Though much
- of the rationale behind vouchers was to open up choices to lower-
- class parents (as if $1000 would enable them to send their child
- to an exclusive private school, and as if there was room in them
- anyway), there was also a clear statement that the middle class and
- even upper class would benefit from these government-funded programs
- as well.
-