SCHOOL VOUCHER SUCCESS IN SPOTLIGHT -- Just a Minute Radio for Friday 120824

Don’t let the week get you down. We’re about to get out of August and into September and lots of things change. The color of leaves is just beginning.

But there are more life changing things – getting ready for the November 6^th election is just one but an *important* one. That one will make you teeth chatter (maybe) for at least four years – except when you go to college.

When you go to college it looks like a Mt. Everest in front of you, especially when you come up against something like math or history – or Chinese (history or language) – and so you set to work first a spoonful at a time getting larger and larger… and first thing you know you’re in the middle of 9 week exams… and it’s Thanksgiving and Christmas looking down you chimney – And … how’re you doing… better than you thought? Worse than you thought?…well, at least it’s progress.

And then it’s Winter…over…and spring busting out all over…and you sit through the first year’s exams in hotting up weather… and the next thing you know you’re pushing for the finals… and Bingo! You’re out (one way or another) Where did all the time go and … and … time to say good by to all the friends or… Heeeelllllooo to the lovely young ladies… and Next thing you know – it’s wedding bells… or not…. Well…we have to stop this movie somewhere… it goes FAST!... The only thing that’s faster is growing up children and grandchildren….and GREAT Grandchildren… and then what…?

That’s the question you needed to be asking when you were in the first class… but you forgot…. Better try to remember… try to remember ahead of time.

Well …that was a hurried trip. Be sure and take your Bible along…it’s easy to neglect but rewarding to study and pay attention.

Sorry… I got off on the IMPORTANT track.. You’ll want to get on it yourself.

Cordially, IN HIM,

Jack & Barbara!

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SCHOOL-VOUCHER SUCCESS IN SPOTLIGHT

Just a Minute: School vouchers have been around longer than most of us suspect. In Vermont and Main they date back to the 1800’s and overseas in the Netherlands more than 70% of pupils attend privately run but publicly funded schools. Nobel Prize winner economist Milton Friedman argued for the modern concept of vouchers in the 1950s. His view was competition would improve schools as well as cost efficiency. Perhaps Mr. Obama would reconsider his views on vouchers when he learns in New York schools African American kids winning a voucher lottery to attend private schools were 24% more likely to attend college. That’s the result of tracking enrollment from kindergarten in 1997 to college enrollment in 2011. The only difference was the ‘luck of the draw’.

Cost in public schools was $5,000 compared with $2,400 in private schools. A voucher winning African-American mother at a focus group session in 1999 said of her 8 year old in third grade: “It’s miraculous the way she has changed.” Education unions stand out as the biggest obstacles to change. <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)

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