From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-11-19, conklin  wrote:   
      
   > "Obveeus"  wrote in message   
   > news:k8dpb9$6cb$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   >> "Dano"  wrote:   
      
   >>> "Mason Barge"  wrote in message   
   >>>> And so why do they have to hold lotteries because there are so many more   
   >>>> children who want to go to them than there are spaces available?   
      
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   >>> Until charter schools can't pick and choose their students any   
   >>> comparisons are unfair and irrelevant.   
      
   >> In theory, if Charter schools are accepting public funding (vouchers),   
   >> they cannot pick and choose their students.  Of course, in practice they   
   >> still do since they can do simple things like not provide busing, which   
   >> all but eliminates poor families from attending (and poor is closely tied   
   >> with less education in the home).   
      
      
      
   > Yes, that is something I just posted.  You must, in some cases, have a third   
   > car.  You have to enourage your children to start driving the first day they   
   > can.   
      
   You are making the utterly stupid assumption that children are   
   mentally capable of the same education.  If the same assumption   
   were applied to non-academic activities such as athletics, the   
   coaches would be spending all their time with those who now cannot   
   even make the reserve squad.   
      
   > As for medicine, those who have no insurance now will get more, and those   
   > who have Medicare will get what they have in the past.  It should have been   
   > "Medicare for All Ages," but now we have the right-wing Romneycare, pushed   
   > by Romney himself until he ran for president.   
      
   As there is a great shortage of medical personnel, somebody has to   
   get less.  Also, the ones pulling the wagon are too busy to go to   
   medical facilities for minor, or even moderate, medical problems,   
   if they can at all treat them themselves, while the riders will go   
   to medical facilities when it is not called for.  I could have   
   better medical care than I now do it I spent most of my time to   
   go and get it.   
      
   Just because a person is born does not mean he has the same right   
   to obtain boons as any other.  He has the same right to try,   
   and the right to try implies the right to fail.   
      
      
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